Clean soil and common ground: The biopolitics of human embryonic stem cell research in austria

Science as Culture

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 377-395

  Prainsack, Barbara ^a   Gmeiner, Robert ^b  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE   (Austria)

Author keywords

Austria; Biotechnology; Historical legacies; Human embryonic stem cell research

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861652313     PISSN: 09505431     EISSN: 14701189     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09505430802515007     Document Type: Article

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