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A Critique of “Bioconstitutional Politics: Toward an Interdisciplinary Paradigm”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 May 2016

John R. Schmidhauser
John R. Schmidhauser*
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Department of Political Science, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089-0044
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Politics and the Life Sciences , Volume 5 , Issue 2 , February 1987 , pp. 213 - 219
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