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Landscape with dead sheep: What they did to Gruinard Island

Elizabeth A Willis Medicine, Conflict and Survival, London, N19 4DJ; c/o Medact, 601 Holloway Road, London, N19 4DJ
Pages 199-211 | Accepted 24 Jan 2001, Published online: 22 Oct 2007

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