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Nervous Conditions: Science and the Body Politic in Early Industrial Britainby Elizabeth Green Musselman

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Book ID: 124500632
Publisher: John Hopkins University Press
Year: 2007
Tongue: English
Weight: 461 KB
Volume: 48
Category: Article
ISSN: 0040-165X
DOI: 10.2307/40061341

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