Vitamins and the dynamics of molecularization: Biochemistry, policy and industry in britain, 1914-1939

Molecularizing Biology and Medicine: New Practices and Alliances, 1920s to 1970s

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 78-98

  Kamminga, Harmke ^a  

^a Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 85071801736     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203304235-12     Document Type: Chapter

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