Large-scale research and the goal of health: Doable problem construction in 'new' nutrition science

Interdisciplinary Science Reviews

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 327-344

  Penders, Bart ^a,b   Horstman, Klasien ^a,c   Vos, Rein ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^c EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Biopolitics; Doable problem construction; Health; Large scale co operation; Nutrition science; Science technology studies

Indexed keywords

BIOPOLITICS; LARGE-SCALE CO-OPERATION; LARGE-SCALE RESEARCH; NUTRIGENOMICS; RESEARCH PROBLEMS;

HEALTH; NUTRITION; PUBLIC HEALTH; RESEARCH;

PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 71649086773     PISSN: 03080188     EISSN: 17432790     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/030801809X12529269201200     Document Type: Article

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