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Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-10-06 - Publisher: Routledge
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-09-12 - Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
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Pages: 237
Pages: 237
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-11-19 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
This work offers a social and cultural history of Victorian medicine "from below," as experienced by ordinary practitioners and patients, often described in the
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Pages: 419
Pages: 419
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-02-01 - Publisher: State University of New York Press
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Language: en
Pages: 274
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