Biocapital as an emergent form of life: Speculations on the figure of the experimental subject

Biosocialities, Genetics and the Social Sciences: Making Biologies and Identities

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 157-187

  Rajan, Kaushik Sunder ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203945940     Document Type: Chapter

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