Distributed sleeping and breathing: On the agency of means in medical work

Agency without Actors?: New Approaches to Collective Action

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 113-129

  Schubert, Cornelius ^a  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

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