Public health, private genes: The social context of genetic biotechnologies

Critical Public Health

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 131-139

  Willis, Evan ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOTECHNOLOGY; ETHICS; GENETIC SCREENING; HEALTH; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME PROJECT; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; PATENT; PUBLIC HEALTH; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL JUSTICE; SOCIOECONOMICS;

BIOTECHNOLOGY; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMAN GENOME PROJECT; HUMANS; INTERNATIONALITY; PATENTS; PUBLIC HEALTH; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL JUSTICE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 0009248096     PISSN: 09581596     EISSN: 14693682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09581599808402900     Document Type: Article

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