Scars from a Childhood Disease: Measles in the Concentration Camps during the Boer War

Social Science History

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 593-611

  Fetter, Bruce ^a   Kessler, Stowell ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^b NONE

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EID: 0009451270     PISSN: 01455532     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0145553200017582     Document Type: Article

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