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Some Questions Pondered on Health and Humanities: Prospects, Opportunities and Challenges

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Lock, J. Some Questions Pondered on Health and Humanities: Prospects, Opportunities and Challenges. Acad Psychiatry 41, 707–710 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40596-017-0812-3

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