Bioethics and the global moral economy: The cultural politics of human embryonic stem cell science

Science Technology and Human Values

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 554-581

  Salter, Brian ^a   Salter, Charlotte ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bioethics; Cultural politics; Moral economy; Stem cells; Transnational networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 34848912918     PISSN: 01622439     EISSN: 15528251     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0895904805303202     Document Type: Article

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