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    Asylum, prison, and poorhouse : the writings and reform work of Dorothea Dix in Illinois / [editor] David L. Lightner.

    | Dorothea Dix | Date: 1999
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    Social welfare work by the Imperial Household of Japan : [and] The humanitarian ideas of the Japanese / by Zennosuke Tsuji.

    | Zennosuke Tsuji | Date: [1934]
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    Women humanitarians : a biographical dictionary of British women active between 1900 and 1950 : 'doers of the word' / Sybil Oldfield.

    | Oldfield, Sybil | Date: 2001
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    Rockefeller philanthropy and modern biomedicine : international initiatives from World War I to the Cold War / edited by William H. Schneider.

    | Date: 2002
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    Military medical aid to civilians : altruism or policy? / by Robert J. Wilensky.

    | Wilensky, Robert J. | Date: 1999
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