Effects of war: Moral knowledge, revenge, reconciliation, and medicalised concepts of "recovery"

British Medical Journal

Volumn 325, Issue 7372, 2002, Pages 1105-1107

  Summerfield, Derek ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; EMOTION; EXPERIENCE; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; MORALITY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; SOCIAL ASPECT; VICTIM; WAR; WESTERN HEMISPHERE;

EID: 0037049026     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.325.7372.1105     Document Type: Short Survey

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