Returning patients to the community: Disability, medicine and economic rationality before the industrial revolution

Disability and Society

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 645-663

  Borsay, Anne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WALES   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0032331827     PISSN: 09687599     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09687599826443     Document Type: Article

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