At home in the colonies: The WHO-MRC trials at the Madras chemotherapy centre in the 1950s and 1960s

Tuberculosis Then and Now: Perspectives on the History of an Infectious Disease

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 213-234

  Valier, Helen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

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