Chasing science: Children's brains, scientific inquiries, and family labors

Science Technology and Human Values

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 662-684

  Rapp, Rayna ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

children's brains; epigenetics; ethnography of science; neuroscience

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053082566     PISSN: 01622439     EISSN: 15528251     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0162243910392796     Document Type: Article

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