Experimental platforms and technologies of visualisation: Cancer as viral epidemic, 1930-1960

Heredity and Infection: The History of Disease Transmission

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 203-241

  Creager, Angela N H ^a   Gaudillière, Jean Paul ^b  

^a Princetown University   (United States)

^b INSERM   (France)

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EID: 85071532820     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203378823-13     Document Type: Chapter

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