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Medicine and Public Health in Modern Iran: Historical and Sociological Perspectives

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2022

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Iranian Studies , Volume 53 , Issue 1-2: Special Section: Medicine and Public Health in Modern Iran: Historical and Sociological Perspectives , March 2020 , pp. 3 - 7
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Copyright © Association For Iranian Studies, Inc 2020

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