Antibiotic Resistance and the Biology of History

Body and Society

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 19-52

  Landecker, Hannah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

antibiotic resistance; antibiotics; biology; biomedicine; biopolitics; biotechnology; social studies of science

Indexed keywords

EID: 84994096924     PISSN: 1357034X     EISSN: 14603632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1357034X14561341     Document Type: Article

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