History of public health in modern India 1857-2005

Public Health in Asia and the Pacific: Historical and Comparative Perspectives

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 87-105

  Ramasubban, Radhika ^a  

^a Centre for the Study of Social Change   (India)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203007563     Document Type: Chapter

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