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Recent research on suicide in the elderly

✍ Scribed by Jane L. Pearson

Book ID: 107550496
Publisher: Springer
Year: 2002
Tongue: English
Weight: 319 KB
Volume: 4
Category: Article
ISSN: 1523-3812
DOI: 10.1007/s11920-002-0014-9

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