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Health in the city: putting together the pieces

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 February 2009

Mary E. Fissell
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Urban History , Volume 19 , Issue 2 , October 1992 , pp. 251 - 256
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1992

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