Two sides of the same coin? The (techno)epistemic cultures of systems and synthetic biology

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

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 130-140

  Kastenhofer, Karen ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b Institute of Technology Assessment   (Austria)

Author keywords

Epistemic cultures; Modelling practices; Synthetic biology; Systems biology; Technoscience

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; KNOWLEDGE; PROCEDURES; RESEARCH; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

KNOWLEDGE; RESEARCH; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

EID: 84877678113     PISSN: 13698486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsc.2013.03.008     Document Type: Article

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