The language and literature of life: Popular metaphors in genome research

Wild Science: Reading Feminism, Medicine and the Media

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 66-79

  Van Dijck, José ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781315008851-14     Document Type: Chapter

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