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Cough disorder: an allegory on DSM‐IV
Author(s) -
Parry Peter I
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2009.tb03377.x
Subject(s) - parry , allegory , child and adolescent psychiatry , service (business) , mental health , psychoanalysis , psychiatry , medicine , psychology , history , art history , artificial intelligence , economy , computer science , economics
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