Cultural bias and 'no-scalpel vasectomies': lessons learned by a Brown anthropologist in Mexico.
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Vasectomy in the United States, 2002.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Medicine and health, Rhode Island
دوره 91 12 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2008