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This guide brings together nurses and other specialists from Canada to provide the Canadian perspective on maternity, newborn, and women's health nursing within a sociocultural context. It covers foun
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Originally published in 1908, Two American Women Journey Through East and South Africa desribes a trip made by two American women to Uganda and the Transvaal in the hopes of inspiring other Americans
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