Fictions, fantasies, and fears: The literary foundations of the cloning debate

Journal of Literary Semantics

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 37-52

  Nerlich, Brigitte ^a,b   Clarke, David D ^a,b   Dingwall, Robert ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b Applied Cognitive Neuroscience Research Centre   (Australia)

^c Genetics and Society Unit

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EID: 0242568527     PISSN: 03417638     EISSN: 16133838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/jlse.30.1.37     Document Type: Review

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