Performing the Union: The Prüm Decision and the European dream

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

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 71-79

  Prainsack, Barbara ^a   Toom, Victor ^b  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Apparatus; European Union (EU); Performativity; Pr m Decision; Stories; Transnational bioinformation exchange

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ARTICLE; CRIME; CRIMINAL LAW; DERMATOGLYPHICS; EUROPE; FACTUAL DATABASE; FORENSIC SCIENCE; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; JURISPRUDENCE; LEGAL ASPECT; MIGRATION; TERRORISM;

CRIME; CRIMINAL LAW; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DERMATOGLYPHICS; DNA; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; EUROPE; FORENSIC SCIENCES; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; JURISPRUDENCE; TERRORISM;

EID: 84875278621     PISSN: 13698486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsc.2012.09.009     Document Type: Article

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