Bulletin of the History of Medicine - Official publication of the American Association for the History of Medicine and the Johns

Bulletin of the History of Medicine

United States

Official publication of the American Association for the History of Medicine and the Johns Hopkins Institute of the History of Medicine. Sample issue and table of contents only. Full text requires subscription to Project Muse.

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