Making Bodies Commensurate: The Social Construction of Humans, Animals, and Microbes as Objects of Scientific Study

This dissertation utilizes three independent research projects to examine one overarching theoretical question: How do people understand, contest, negotiate, and / or rationalize the ways in which bodies-human, animal, and microbial - are socially constructed as commensurate, or not, in science? Usi...

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Main Author: Kelly, Kimberly Lynn
Other Authors: Nichter, Mark
Language:en_US
Published: The University of Arizona. 2016
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10150/613266
http://arizona.openrepository.com/arizona/handle/10150/613266