Medicalizing culture(s) or culturalizing medicine(s)

Biomedicine as Culture: Instrumental Practices, Technoscientific Knowledge, and New Modes of Life

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 17-33

  Beck, Stefan ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

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EID: 79959344222     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203941584     Document Type: Chapter

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