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12.07.2018 | Review Article

Ilana Löwy: Imperfect pregnancies: a history of birth defects & prenatal diagnosis

Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2017, 277 pp

verfasst von: Y. M. Barilan

Erschienen in: Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy | Ausgabe 1/2019

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Titel: Ilana Löwy: Imperfect pregnancies: a history of birth defects & prenatal diagnosis
Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2017, 277 pp
verfasst von: Y. M. Barilan
Publikationsdatum: 12.07.2018
Verlag: Springer Netherlands
Erschienen in: Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy / Ausgabe 1/2019
Print ISSN: 1386-7423
Elektronische ISSN: 1572-8633
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11019-018-9849-7

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