The blood transfusion taboo of Jehovah's Witnesses: Origin, development and function of a controversial doctrine
- 1 January 1990
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Elsevier in Social Science & Medicine
- Vol. 31 (4) , 515-523
- https://doi.org/10.1016/0277-9536(90)90048-w
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