Geneticizing Ethnicity: A study on the "Taiwan Bio-Bank"

East Asian Science, Technology and Society

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 433-455

  Tsai, Yu yueh ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF SOCIOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Biomedicine; Ethnicity; Gene; Identity politics; Race; Taiwan Bio Bank

Indexed keywords

EID: 79951580078     PISSN: 18752160     EISSN: 18752152     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12280-010-9146-x     Document Type: Article

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