Science and politics meet at last: The insurance industry and neuropsychological norms

South African Journal of Psychology

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 43-48

  Nell, Victor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AFRICA   (South Africa)

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