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The collectors of lost souls : turning Kuru scientists into whitemen / Warwick Anderson.
LIBRA RC394.K8 A53 2008
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Anderson, Warwick, 1958-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kuru--Papua New Guinea--History.
- Kuru.
- Gajdusek, D. Carleton (Daniel Carleton), 1923-2008.
- Gajdusek, D. Carleton.
- Virologists--United States--Biography.
- Virologists.
- Neurologists--United States--Biography.
- Neurologists.
- Fore (Papua New Guinean people)--Diseases.
- Fore (Papua New Guinean people).
- Kuru--history.
- History.
- Papua New Guinea.
- Biomedical Research--history.
- Cannibalism.
- Funeral Rites.
- History, 20th Century.
- United States.
- Medical Subjects:
- Kuru--history.
- Papua New Guinea.
- Biomedical Research--history.
- Cannibalism.
- Funeral Rites.
- History, 20th Century.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 318 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2008]
- Contents:
- The disease Europeans catch from Kuru
- Stranger relations
- Portrait of the scientist as a young man
- A contemptuous tenderness
- The scientist and his magic
- Hearts of darkness
- Specimen days
- We were their people
- Stumbling along the tortuous road
- Dénouement was a bit difficult.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [281]-310) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780801890406
- 0801890403
- OCLC:
- 212375922
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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