Time and the structuring of ritual performance in the xenotransplantation debate

Public Understanding of Science

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 235-247

  Bickford, Julia ^a   Mather, Charles ^b   Fleising, Usher ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVISORY COMMITTEE; ANIMAL; AUTHORITY; CONFLICT; ETHICS; HUMAN; MORALITY; POLICY; REVIEW; SYMBOLISM; UNITED STATES; XENOGRAFT;

ADVISORY COMMITTEES; ANIMALS; AUTHORITARIANISM; CEREMONIAL BEHAVIOR; DISSENT AND DISPUTES; HUMANS; MORALS; PUBLIC POLICY; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 22544475018     PISSN: 09636625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0963662505047525     Document Type: Review

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