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Making Policy for Whom? The Significance of the ‘Psychoanalytic Medical Humanities’ for Policy and Practice That Affects the Lives of Disabled Children

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Cooper, H. (2018). Making Policy for Whom? The Significance of the ‘Psychoanalytic Medical Humanities’ for Policy and Practice That Affects the Lives of Disabled Children. In: Runswick-Cole, K., Curran, T., Liddiard, K. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Disabled Children’s Childhood Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-54446-9_30

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