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Newspaper Coverage of People with Disabilities in Canada and Israel: An international comparison

Nora Gold School of Social Work, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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Gail Auslander School of Social Work, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
Pages 709-731 | Published online: 01 Jul 2010

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