Laboratories, laws, and the career of a commodity

Environment and Planning D: Society and Space

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 967-989

  Atkins, Peter ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMODITY; MILK; MODERNITY; STANDARDIZATION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 38149123800     PISSN: 02637758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/d74j     Document Type: Article

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