Disease as Justice: Perceptions of the Victims of Physical Illness

Basic and Applied Social Psychology

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 1983, Pages 39-46

  Sloan, Richard P ^b  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b Department of Psychology ^*  (United States)

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EID: 0010087630     PISSN: 01973533     EISSN: 15324834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15324834basp0401_4     Document Type: Article

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