Travelling facts about crowded rats: Rodent experimentation and the human sciences

How Well do Facts Travel? The Dissemination of Reliable Knowledge

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 223-251

  Ramsden, Edmund ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511762154.012     Document Type: Chapter

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