Real Science, Biological Bodies and Stem Cells: Constructing Images of β-Cells in the Biomedical Science Lab

Social Theory and Health

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 275-298

  Wainwright, Steven P ^a   Williams, Clare ^a   Persaud, Shanta J ^a   Jones, Peter M ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

body; images; laboratory; postmodernism; scientific realism

Indexed keywords

EID: 38749095380     PISSN: 14778211     EISSN: 1477822X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.sth.8700075     Document Type: Article

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