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The Humanitarian Postulate in International Disaster Relief

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2012

S. W. A. Gunn
S. W. A. Gunn*
Affiliation:
President, World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine
*
European Centre for Disaster Medicine, La Panatiere, 1261 Bogis-Bossey, Switzerland
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Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 9 , Issue 1 , March 1994 , pp. 1 - 3
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Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 1994

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