Measuring biological sex

Designing and Conducting Gender, Sex, and Health Research

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 85-102

  Einstein, Gillian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

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DOI: 10.4135/9781452230610.n5     Document Type: Chapter

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