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Finding a vocabulary for the extrascientific significance of technology

Nature Biotechnology volume 15, page 394 (1997)Cite this article

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  1. Edward S. Golub, former professor of biology at Purdue University, and director of research at Ortho Biotech, is at the Pacific Center for Ethics and Applied Biology (egolub@esga.com). He is also the author of The Limits of Medicine: How Science Shapes Our Hope for the Cure, University of Chicago Press.

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Golub, E. Finding a vocabulary for the extrascientific significance of technology. Nat Biotechnol 15, 394 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt0597-394

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