Improving Nature?: The Science and Ethics of Genetic Engineering
- ISBN-10
- 0524544417
- ISBN-13
- 9780524544419
- Category
- Genetic engineering
- Pages
- 288
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1998
- Authors
- Michael Jonathan Reiss, Roger Straughan
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- 2001-05-21
- 288 pages
- Paperback
- Cambridge University Press
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