Situated bio-regulation: Ethnographic sensibility at the interface of STS, policy studies and the social studies of medicine

BioSocieties

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 336-359

  Prainsack, Barbara ^a   Wahlberg, Ayo ^b  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Ethnographic sensibility; Expert elite interviews; Herbal medicine; Policy research; Stem cell research; STS

Indexed keywords

EID: 84883397581     PISSN: 17458552     EISSN: 17458560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/biosoc.2013.14     Document Type: Article

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