Responses to Women with Learning Disabilities as they go Through the Menopause

Tizard Learning Disability Review

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 4-12

  McCarthy, Michelle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84993087845     PISSN: 13595474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13595474200200002     Document Type: Review

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