Consumer Health Information

Introduction to Health Sciences Librarianship

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 429-458

  Smith, Catherine Arnott ^a  

^a University of Wisconsin   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1300/6041_18     Document Type: Chapter

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