Defining human differences in biomedicine

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1421-1422

  Brown, Maggie ^a   Barbour, Virginia ^a   Cohen, Barbara ^a   Chinnock, Paul ^a   Peiperl, Larry ^a   Yamey, Gavin ^a  

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICINE; EDITORIAL; ETHNICITY; HUMAN; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; RACE DIFFERENCE; BIOETHICS; ETHNOLOGY; INDIVIDUALITY; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; RACE;

BIOETHICAL ISSUES; BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY;

EID: 34848827914     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0040288     Document Type: Editorial

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