'Population laboratories' or 'laboratory populations'? Making sense of the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging, 1965-1987

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C :Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 317-327

  Moreira, Tiago ^a   Palladino, Paolo ^b  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ageing; Epidemiology; Longitudinal studies; Model organisms; Samples; Statistics; United States

Indexed keywords

AGING; ARTICLE; HISTORY; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; UNITED STATES;

AGING; BALTIMORE; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 79960834245     PISSN: 13698486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsc.2011.05.001     Document Type: Article

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