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- PublisherRutgers University Press
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 081353237X
- ISBN 13 9780813532370
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages250
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Plants, Patients, and the Historian: (Re)membering in the Age of Genetic Engineering (Encounters Cultural History)
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