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The role of language in expressing the life sciences in a polarized age

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 July 2017

Kathleen Hall Jamieson
Kathleen Hall Jamieson*
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Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania
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Correspondence: Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvani. Email: kjamieson@asc.upenn.edu
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Politics and the Life Sciences , Volume 36 , Issue 1 , Spring 2017 , pp. 47 - 53
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