Sex control technology and reproductive "Choice": The conflation of technical and political argument in the new science of human reproduction

Communication Theory

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 388-405

  Stearney, Lynn M ^a  

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EID: 0030273926     PISSN: 10503293     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2885.1996.tb00138.x     Document Type: Review

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