Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Places of Death: an Agenda for the 21st Century. Held in Sion, Switzerland, November 1 and 2, 2005, at the Institut Universitaire Kurt Bosch, with the support of Geneva University, WHO, and the Swiss Medical Academy.
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