The medical imaginary and the biotechnical embrace: Subjective experiences of clinical scientists and patients

Subjectivity: Ethnographic Investigations

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 362-380

  Good, Mary Jo Delvecchio ^a,b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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