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Rheumatoid Arthritis: Psychosocial Aspects

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  1. Division of Rehabilitation, Joumou Hospital, Maebashi, Japan

    Toshihide Hashimoto

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  1. University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA

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  1. The University of Tokyo, Department of Stress Sciences & Psychosomatic Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

    Kazuhiro Yoshiuchi

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Hashimoto, T. (2020). Rheumatoid Arthritis: Psychosocial Aspects. In: Gellman, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Behavioral Medicine. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6439-6_427-2

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