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| Author | : Caroline Hannaway |
| File Size | : 49,7 Mb |
| Publisher | : IOS Press |
| Language | : English |
| Release Date | : 01 May 2024 |
| ISBN | : 9781586038328 |
| Pages | : 388 pages |
." . . based on a conference that was held at the National Institutes of Health in December 2005 to promote historical research on biomedical science in the twentieth century"--p. ix.
." . . based on a conference that was held at the National Institutes of Health in December 2005 to promote historical research on biomedical science in the twentieth century"--p. ix.
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Biomedicine in the Twentieth Century: Practices, Policies, and Politics is a testimony to the growing interest of scholars in the development of the biomedical sciences in the twentieth century and to the number of historians, social scientists and health policy analysts now working on the subject. The book is comprised
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