Literature and medicine: Origins and destinies

Academic Medicine

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 23-27

  Charon, Rita ^a  

^a Division of General Medicine ^*  (United States)

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ARTICLE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0033969957     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001888-200001000-00008     Document Type: Article

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