Civil liberties and public good: detention of tuberculous patients and the Public Health Act 1984.

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  title={Civil liberties and public good: detention of tuberculous patients and the Public Health Act 1984.},
  author={Richard Coker},
  journal={Medical History},
  year={2001},
  volume={45},
  pages={341 - 358},
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}
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