Homicide as a source of maternal mortality in the United States

Homicide: Trends, Causes and Prevention

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 143-156

  Lang, Christopher T ^a   King, Jeffrey C ^a  

^a THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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