Reconsidering democracy: History of the Human Genome Project

Science Communication

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 479-502

  Huijer, Marli ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Big science; Citizenship; Contextualization; Democracy; Human Genome Project

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037595524     PISSN: 10755470     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1075547003024004004     Document Type: Article

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