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The Roger Allan Moore Lecture on Values and Medicine: Ethical, Religious and Cultural Perspectives, Harvard University School of Medicine, March 25, 1993.

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James, S.A. John Henryism and the health of African-Americans. Cult Med Psych 18, 163–182 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01379448

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