Field of genes: The politics of science and identity in the Estonian genome project

New Genetics and Society

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 3-14

  Fletcher, Amy L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CYBERNETICS; DATA BASE; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ESTONIA; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME; HUMAN; POLICY; POLITICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS;

BIOMEDICAL AND BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; GENETICS AND REPRODUCTION;

DATABASES, NUCLEIC ACID; ESTONIA; GENE POOL; GENETIC RESEARCH; HUMAN GENOME PROJECT; HUMANS; LEGISLATION, MEDICAL; POLITICS; PUBLIC POLICY; SCIENCE;

EID: 2442426381     PISSN: 14636778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1463677042000189589     Document Type: Article

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