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Not Just Numbers: Qualitative Research and the Clinical Neurosciences

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2014

Mary Ellen Macdonald
Affiliation:
McGill University Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Colin Chalk
Affiliation:
McGill University Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Abstract

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Copyright
Copyright © The Canadian Journal of Neurological 2011

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