RE: Auto-Erotic Asphyxial Death

@article{Cooper1995REAA,
  title={RE: Auto-Erotic Asphyxial Death},
  author={Alan J. Cooper},
  journal={The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry},
  year={1995},
  volume={40},
  pages={363 - 364}
}
  • A. J. Cooper
  • Published 1 August 1995
  • Medicine
  • The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry
Comment on: Autoerotic asphyxial deaths: analysis of nineteen fatalities in Alberta, 1978 to 1989.Tough SC, Butt JC, Sanders GL. Can J Psychiatry. 1994 Apr; 39(3):157-60. Language: en 
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