Mobilizing Experimental Life: Spaces of Becoming with Mutant Mice

Theory, Culture & Society

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 129-153

  Davies, Gail ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

becoming; emergence; experimental systems; model organisms; mutation; spatiality; standardization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890408725     PISSN: 02632764     EISSN: 14603616     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0263276413496285     Document Type: Article

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