The case for applied history of medicine, and the place of Wigan
Behavioral and Brain SciencesPublished 1 December 1985Open access
H Isler, Marianne Regard
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The article concludes that at least some of the data gathered in the 19th century might prove useful or interesting to certain investigators today and asks how far an awareness of the "time-bound" nature of 19th-century concepts should change the way in which one surveys the Iaterality scene today.
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