Making Predictions: Computing Populations

Science Technology and Human Values

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 398-420

  Holmberg, Christine ^a   Bischof, Christine ^b   Bauer, Susanne ^c  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

accounting practices; archiving and collecting practices; epistemology; governance; methodologies; methods; politics; power; representation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876708239     PISSN: 01622439     EISSN: 15528251     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0162243912439610     Document Type: Article

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