Forbidden or forsaken?: The (mis)use of a forbidden knowledge argument in research on race, DNA, and disease

Genetics and the Unsettled Past: The Collision of DNA, Race, and History

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 315-324

  Frank, Reanne ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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