Beyond geneticization: Regimes of perceptibility and the social determinants of health

Reimagining (Bio)Medicalization, Pharmaceuticals and Genetics: Old Critiques and New Engagements

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 216-238

  Shostak, Sara ^a   Moinester, Margot ^b  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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