Book ID: CBB000111898

The Meaning of the Gene: Public Debates about Human Heredity (1999)

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Condit, Celeste Michelle (Author)


University of Wisconsin Press


Publication Date: 1999
Physical Details: xii + 325 pp., tables, apps., bibl., index
Language: English

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Review McElheny, Victor (2004) Review of "The Meaning of the Gene: Public Debates about Human Heredity". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 167). unapi

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