Rockefeller strategies for scientific medicine: Molecular machines, viruses and vaccines

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

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 491-509

  Gaudillière, Jean Paul ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

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EID: 0043285843     PISSN: 13698486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1369-8486(00)00017-0     Document Type: Article

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