Knowing cases: Biomedicine in Edinburgh, 1887-1920

Social Studies of Science

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 659-688

  Sturdy, Steve ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b ERCS Genomics Policy and Research Forum

Author keywords

Cases; Edinburgh; Laboratories; Medicine; Sociology of scientific knowledge; Triangulation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HISTORY; LABORATORY; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDICAL SOCIETY; UNITED KINGDOM;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; LABORATORIES; SCOTLAND; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL;

EID: 34548543326     PISSN: 03063127     EISSN: 14603659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0306312707076597     Document Type: Article

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