Complexity and accountability: The witches' brew of psychiatric genetics

Social Studies of Science

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 499-524

  Arribas Ayllon, Michael ^a   Bartlett, Andrew ^a   Featherstone, Katie ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accountability; Complexity; Psychiatric genetics; Rhetoric

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; HUMAN; MENTAL DISEASE;

GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS;

EID: 77954615046     PISSN: 03063127     EISSN: 14603659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0306312710363511     Document Type: Article

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