Cutting across nature? The history of artificial insemination in pigs in the United Kingdom

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C :Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 442-461

  Brassley, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Artificial insemination; Pigs; Technical change

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; BREEDING; HISTORY; SWINE; UNITED KINGDOM;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; BREEDING; GREAT BRITAIN; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; INSEMINATION, ARTIFICIAL; SWINE;

EID: 34249317201     PISSN: 13698486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsc.2007.03.008     Document Type: Article

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