Jane Austen's lifelong health problems and final illness: New evidence points to a fatal Hodgkin's disease and excludes the widely accepted Addison's

Medical Humanities

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 3-11

  Upfal, Annettee ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

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Indexed keywords

ADDISON DISEASE; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FATALITY; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; INFECTION; LIFE EVENT; PATIENT EDUCATION; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

EID: 20444486220     PISSN: 1468215X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jmh.2004.000193     Document Type: Article

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