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Chapter 41 - Transgenderism

Cross-Cultural Perspectives

from Section 5 - Management with Special Groups

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 March 2018

By
Gurvinder Kalra
Edited by
Dinesh Bhugra  and
Kamaldeep Bhui
Dinesh Bhugra
Affiliation:
Institute of Psychiatry, London
Kamaldeep Bhui
Affiliation:
Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry
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Textbook of Cultural Psychiatry , pp. 534 - 542
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2018

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