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The Humanitarian Postulate in International Disaster Relief

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2012

S. W. A. Gunn*
Affiliation:
President, World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine
*
European Centre for Disaster Medicine, La Panatiere, 1261 Bogis-Bossey, Switzerland

Abstract

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Type
Editorials
Copyright
Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 1994

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