'Human clones talk about their lives': Media representations of assisted reproductive and biogenetic technologies

Media, Culture and Society

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2007, Pages

  Michelle, Carolyn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Anecdotal personalization; Cloning; Concordance; In vitro fertilization; Science journalism; Technoboosterism

Indexed keywords

EID: 34250363652     PISSN: 01634437     EISSN: 14603675     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0163443707078425     Document Type: Article

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