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Historical Research

Sir William Osler, eugenics, racism, and the Komagata Maru incident

Charles S. BryanDepartment of Internal Medicine (Emeritus), University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Columbia, South CarolinaCorrespondence[email protected]
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Pages 194-198 | Received 12 Oct 2020, Accepted 26 Oct 2020, Published online: 09 Nov 2020

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