An edition of The collectors of lost souls
(2008)
The collectors of lost souls
turning whitemen into kuru scientists
by Warwick Anderson
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This account of medical detective work traces the story of kuru, a fatal brain disease, and the pioneering scientists who spent decades searching for its cause.
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Biography, Biomedical Research, Cannibalism, Diseases, Fore (Papua New Guinean people), Funeral Rites, History, History, 20th Century, Kuru, Neurologists, Virologists, Neurologists, biography, Funeral rites and ceremonies, Papua new guinea, history, Ethnology, papua new guinea, KannibalismusPeople
D. Carleton Gajdusek (1923-)Places
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The collectors of lost souls: turning whitemen into kuru scientists
2008, Johns Hopkins University Press
in English
0801890403 9780801890406
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Table of Contents
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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