Health and empire: Britain's national campaign to combat venereal diseases in Shanghai, Hong Kong and Singapore

Sex, Sin and Suffering: Venereal Disease and European Society since 1870

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 173-190

  MacPherson, Kerrie L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

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EID: 84904848615     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203300510     Document Type: Chapter

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