Lamenting the Golden Age: Love, Labour and Loss in the Collective Memory of Scientists

Science as Culture

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 24-45

  Holden, Kerry ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

academic science; commercialisation; golden age; moral economy; myth; scientific labour

Indexed keywords

EID: 84922224738     PISSN: 09505431     EISSN: 14701189     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09505431.2014.928678     Document Type: Article

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