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The Humanitarian Imperative in Disaster Management—A Memorial Tribute to Professor Peter Safar

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2012

S.W.A. Gunn*
Affiliation:
President, International Association for Humanitarian Medicine, President Emeritus, World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine
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Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 2005

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