Epigenetics: Embedded bodies and the molecularisation of biography and milieu

BioSocieties

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 279-298

  Niewöhner, Jörg ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

biosociality; embedded body; epigenetics; ethnography; molecularisation

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052378015     PISSN: 17458552     EISSN: 17458560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/biosoc.2011.4     Document Type: Article

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