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Missing Female Fetus: A Micro Level Investigation of Sex Determination in a Periurban Area of Northern India

Rohini Ghosh South Asia Network for Chronic Disease, Public Health Foundation of India, New Delhi, India
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Arun Kumar Sharma Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur, India
Pages 1020-1034 | Received 07 Sep 2010, Accepted 31 Jul 2011, Published online: 15 Nov 2012

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