Accounting for Complexity: Gene–environment Interaction Research and the Moral Economy of Quantification

Science Technology and Human Values

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 194-218

  Ackerman, Sara L ^a   Darling, Katherine Weatherford ^a   Lee, Sandra Soo Jin ^b   Hiatt, Robert A ^c   Shim, Janet K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

epidemiology; genetics; moral economies; quantification; standarization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84957831093     PISSN: 01622439     EISSN: 15528251     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0162243915595462     Document Type: Article

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