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“Could we meet?”: A conversation on collaboration, feeling and failure

Andrew S. Balmer, Katie Bulpin, Susan Molyneux-Hodgson (Eds), Synthetic Biology: A Sociology of Changing Practices, Houndmills, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016, US$87.75, ISBN: 978-1137495419.

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  1. Department of Sociology, School of Social Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK

    Andrew S. Balmer

  2. Department of Sociology, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK

    Susan Molyneux-Hodgson

  3. Department of Psychosocial Studies, Birkbeck, University of London, London, UK

    Felicity Callard

  4. School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK

    Des Fitzgerald

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Balmer, A.S., Molyneux-Hodgson, S., Callard, F. et al. “Could we meet?”: A conversation on collaboration, feeling and failure. BioSocieties 13, 668–674 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41292-017-0088-6

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