Fighting a losing battle? The right not to know and the dynamics of biomedical knowledge production

Routledge International Handbook of Ignorance Studies

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 206-214

  Wehling, Peter ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781315867762     Document Type: Chapter

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