Inviolable versus alterable identities: Culture, biotechnology, and resistance

Social Representations and Identity: Content, Process, and Power

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 177-196

  Kronberger, Nicole ^a   Wagner, Wolfgang ^a  

^a JOHANNES KEPLER UNIVERSITY LINZ   (Austria)

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DOI: 10.1057/9780230609181     Document Type: Chapter

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