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Introduction: plurality in patenting: medical technology and cultures of protection
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 November 2016
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- The British Journal for the History of Science , Volume 49 , Special Issue 4: Owning Health: Medicine and Anglo-American Patent Cultures , December 2016 , pp. 533 - 540
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