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. 2011 Feb 15;8(2):e1000417.
doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000417.

Measuring the true costs of war: consensus and controversy

Robert Muggah  1
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Measuring the true costs of war: consensus and controversy

Robert Muggah. PLoS Med. .

Abstract

Robert Muggah discusses the costs of war and a new analysis published in PLoS Medicine by Madelyn Hsiao-Rei Hicks and colleagues that documents the number of Iraqi civilian violent deaths during 2003-2008.

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