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Voluntarism in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina: The Uniform Emergency Volunteer Health Practitioners Act

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 April 2013

James G. Hodge Jr ,
Raymond P. Pepe  and
William H. Henning
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Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness , Volume 1 , Issue 1 , July 2007 , pp. 44 - 50
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Copyright © Society for Disaster Medicine and Public Health, Inc. 2007

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