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19 - Psychiatrist as caregiver

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 August 2009

Thomas N. Kerrihard M.D.
Affiliation:
Director, Psychiatry and Mental Health Services, AIDS Healthcare Foundation, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Marie Josée Brouillette
Affiliation:
McGill University, Montréal
Alexandra Beckett
Affiliation:
Harvard University, Massachusetts
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HIV and Psychiatry
Training and Resource Manual
, pp. 307 - 318
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2005

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