Media(ted) fabrications: How the science-media symbiosis helped 'sell' cord banking

Communication and Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 55-68

  Michelle, Carolyn ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

^b University of Waikato ^*  (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Anecdotal personalization; Cord banking; Science journalism; Science media symbiosis; Stem cells; Technoboosterism

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD BANK; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; CONSUMER; COOPERATION; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; GENETIC PROCEDURES; LEGAL ASPECT; MASS MEDIUM; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; NEW ZEALAND; PERSONALITY; PROBLEM SOLVING; SCIENCE; SOCIAL ASPECT; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD;

EID: 33745190031     PISSN: 16121783     EISSN: 16133625     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/CAM.2006.006     Document Type: Article

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