Social medicine in the twenty-first century

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1661-1662

  Stonington, Scott ^a   Holmes, Seth M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ECONOMICS; EDITORIAL; GENOME; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HUMAN; LIFESPAN; POLITICS; POVERTY; SOCIAL MEDICINE; SOCIOECONOMICS; PUBLICATION; PUBLISHING;

EDITORIAL POLICIES; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; SOCIAL MEDICINE;

EID: 33750892321     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030445     Document Type: Editorial

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