Perspective: Biomedicine-menace or straw man? Reexamining the biopsychosocial argument

Academic Medicine

Volumn 86, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 509-515

  Kontos, Nicholas ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

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EID: 79955119348     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACM.0b013e31820e0d16     Document Type: Review

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