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Controlling Biotechnology: Science, Democracy and ‘Civic Epistemology’

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Ezrahi, Y. Controlling Biotechnology: Science, Democracy and ‘Civic Epistemology’. Metasci 17, 177–198 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-008-9201-6

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