Journal from Amazonia to New Guinea on the road to Kuru and the Kukukuku
Subtitle: January 1, 1955 to December 31, 1958
By: D. Carleton Gajdusek
Contributors: Centre national de la recherche scientifique (France)
Publisher: D. Carleton Gajdusek; CNRS-Institut Alfred Fessard
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Tromsø, Norway; Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Language: eng
Number of pages: 131
Copyright date: 2001
Subjects: Diaries; Travel; Medical geography; Tropical medicine; Kuru; Virologists; Biography; Epidemiologists; Geography; Tropical Medicine; Virology; Epidemiology
Other titles: Journal, January 1, 1955 to December 31, 1958
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Medical expedition in Amazonia to Uruma colony of Okinawans, Rio Grande o Guapai, Bolivia and to Iquitos, Baja Amazonas, Peru : March 10, 1955 to August 9, 1955; title: Meandering toward Australia with travels in France, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Austria, Yugoslavia, Greece, Turkey, Iran, Pakistan, Thailand, Malaya and Singapore : August 10, 1955 to October c. 15, 1955; title: Journal 1955-1957, Australia and New Guinea : virology to autoimmunology, ethnopediatrics to Kuru, enchantment by Melanesians, politics of science : October 1955 to December 31, 1957; title: Return travels to U.S.A. from first year of Kuru study in New Guinea, and back in U.S.A. after three years of absence from America, starting Kuru studies at the National Institutes of Health : January 1, 1958 to December 31, 1958.