Review of R. Burt, Taking Care of Strangers

Date

1981

Citation

Kenneth S. Abraham, Review of R. Burt, <em>Taking Care of Strangers</em>, 169 Journal of Nervous & Mental Disease 740 (1981).

UVA Law Faculty Affiliations

Kenneth S. Abraham

John W. Glynn Jr. Law & Business Program

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