The medical palimpsest of The Scarlet Letter: An interdisciplinary reading

Medical Humanities

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 17-22

  Dolezal, Joshua ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

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[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL MEDICINE; COMPETENCE; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HERBAL MEDICINE; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PHILOSOPHY;

EID: 20444500965     PISSN: 1468215X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jmh.2004.000184     Document Type: Article

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