Medical Refugees in Britain and the Wider World, 1930-1960: Introduction.

Soc Hist Med

Wellcome Trust Research Professor in the History of Medicine, School of Arts and Humanities, Oxford Brookes University, Headington Campus, Gipsy Lane, Oxford OX3 0BP, UK.

Published: December 2009

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