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What do a seventeenth-century mortality table (whose causes of death include "fainted in a bath," "frighted," and "itch"); the identification of South Africans during apartheid as European, Asian, colored, or black; and the separation of machine- from hand-washables have in common? All are... read more

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In an episode of The X-Files, a television show devoted to FBI investigations of the paranormal, federal agents Mulder and Scully investigated a spate of murders of psychics of all stamps: palm readers, astrologers, and so forth.

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  1. Geoffrey C. Bowker (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: MIT Press
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Publication Date: 1999
ISBN: 0262024616
Page Count: 389

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