The brain at the end of the rainbow: The promises of brain scans in the research field and in the media

Wild Science: Reading Feminism, Medicine and the Media

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 39-52

  Beaulieu, Anne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BATH   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781315008851-11     Document Type: Chapter

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