Bioweapons proliferation:: Where science studies and public policy collide

Social Studies of Science

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 659-690

  Vogel, Kathleen ^a  

^a Cornell University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Biological weapons; Bioterrorism; Nonproliferation; Replication; Sociology of scientific knowledge; Tacit knowledge; Testing

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748419327     PISSN: 03063127     EISSN: 14603659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0306312706059460     Document Type: Article

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