Ethnographic critique and technoscientific narratives: The old mole, ethical plateaux, and the governance of emergent biosocial polities

Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 355-393

  Fischer, Michael M J ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biosocialities; Critique; Governance; The literary and the ethnographic

Indexed keywords

ADVERTIZING; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BIOETHICS; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; EVALUATION; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY;

ADVERTISING; ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BIOETHICS; BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; CULTURE; EVALUATION STUDIES; HUMANS; INFORMED CONSENT;

EID: 0035755829     PISSN: 0165005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1013078230464     Document Type: Article

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