From society to molecule and back: The contested scale of public health science

Contested Categories: Life Sciences in Society

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 113-134

  Bauer, Susanne ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

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