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Health Legacies of War on and beyond the Battlefield

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2021

Susan L. Smith
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Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics , Volume 39 , Issue 1 , Spring 2011 , pp. 5 - 7
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Copyright © American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics 2011

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