`What blood told Dr Cohn': World War II, plasma fractionation, and the growth of human blood research

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C :Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 377-405

  Creager, Angela N H ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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