Dying: The last month

Death, Dying and Bereavement: A Hong Kong Chinese Experience

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 151-167

  Lo, Raymond See Kit ^a  

^a ST THOMAS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

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