Translating Racial Genomics: Passages in and Beyond the Lab

Qualitative Sociology

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 423-443

  Bliss, Catherine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Actor network theory; Genomics; Race; Science

Indexed keywords

EID: 84888074060     PISSN: 01620436     EISSN: 15737837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11133-013-9257-5     Document Type: Article

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