Expressing freedom and talking liberties: The paradoxes of aberrant science

Medical Humanities

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 32-37

  Little, Miles ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; CONFLICT OF INTEREST; FREEDOM; HUMAN; IDEOLOGY; MISCONDUCT; MORALITY; PERCEPTION; PHILOSOPHY; SOCIAL ATTITUDE; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIOLOGY; ANALYTICAL APPROACH; ATTITUDE; BIOMEDICAL AND BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; CLASSIFICATION; ETHICS; MASS MEDIUM; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METHODOLOGY; PEER REVIEW; PERSONNEL; POLITICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBLICATION; PUBLISHING; SCIENCE; SCIENTIFIC MISCONDUCT;

ANALYTICAL APPROACH; BIOMEDICAL AND BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

ATTITUDE; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; EDITORIAL POLICIES; FREEDOM; HUMANS; MASS MEDIA; PEER REVIEW, RESEARCH; PERIODICALS; PHILOSOPHY; POLITICS; RESEARCH PERSONNEL; SCIENCE; SCIENTIFIC MISCONDUCT; SOCIOLOGY;

EID: 33745186477     PISSN: 1468215X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jmh.2004.000205     Document Type: Article

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