Making Room for Stem Cells: Dissociation and Establishing New Research Objects

Argumentation and Advocacy

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 143-156

  Lynch, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

Author keywords

dissociation; reality; rhetoric; science; stem cells

Indexed keywords

EID: 65749100882     PISSN: 10511431     EISSN: 25768476     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00028533.2006.11821647     Document Type: Article

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