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The compassion of concealment: silence between older caregivers and dying patients in the AIDS era, northwest Tanzania

Josien de Klerk Department of Social Anthropology, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The NetherlandsCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages S27-S38 | Received 12 Apr 2011, Accepted 09 Oct 2011, Published online: 17 Nov 2011

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