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June 25, 2004

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Epidemiologic Evidence In Public And Legal Policy: Reality Or Metaphor

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By Gio Batta Gori, ScD, MPH, the director of the Health Policy Center of Bethesda, Maryland and a former deputy director at the U.S. National Cancer Institute.

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