Hormone Mimics and their Promise of Significant Otherness

Science as Culture

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 49-76

  Wylie, Sara ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

companion species; Endocrine disruption; epigenetics; mimesis; pesticides

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858208716     PISSN: 09505431     EISSN: 14701189     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09505431.2011.566920     Document Type: Article

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