Mary Putnam Jacobi and the Politics of Medicine in Nineteenth-century America

Mary Putnam Jacobi and the Politics of Medicine in Nineteenth-century America
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Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Total Pages : 349
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ISBN-10 : 9780807832837
ISBN-13 : 0807832839
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