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  E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/31604425 Title: Quantification and the quest for medical certainty Author: J Rosser Matthews Publisher: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1995. ISBN/ISSN: 0691037949 9780691037943 OCLC:31604425

  
  

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Quantification and the quest for medical certainty

Author:	J Rosser Matthews
Publisher:	Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1995.
Edition/Format:	Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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