To the science, to the living, to the dead: Ethics and bioarchaeology

The Nature of Difference: Science, Society and Human Biology (PBK)

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 203-224

  Turner, Bethany L ^a   Toebbe, Diana S ^a   Armelagos, George J ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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