The American Journal of Medicine
Volume 77, Issue 3 , Pages 524-532 , September 1984

Rudolf Ludwig Karl Virchow, where are you now that we need you?

  • Leon Eisenberg, M.D

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationRequests for reprints should be addressed to Dr. Leon Eisenberg, Harvard Medical School, 25 Shattuck Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02115.
    • From the Department of Social Medicine and Health Policy and the Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.

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☆ This work was the Invited Address at the National Meeting of the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, Howey-in-the-Hills, Florida, November 7, 1983.

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The American Journal of Medicine
Volume 77, Issue 3 , Pages 524-532 , September 1984

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