Placebos and controlled trials under attack
โ Scribed by L. Lasagna
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 1979
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 196 KB
- Volume
- 15
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0031-6970
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