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Case Law Regarding Nurses as Expert Witnesses in Child Abuse

Beatrice Crofts Yorker San Francisco State University, School of Nursing, San Francisco, California, USA
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Susan Kelley Georgia State University, College of Health and Human Sciences, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Pages 639-645 | Published online: 09 Jul 2009

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