The collectors of lost souls
Subtitle: turning whitemen into kuru scientists
By: Warwick Anderson.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9780801890406
Subjects: Gajdusek, D. Carleton -- 1923-; Gajdusek, D. Carleton -- 1923-; Kuru -- Papua New Guinea -- History; Virologists -- United States -- Biography; Neurologists -- United States -- Biography; Fore (Papua New Guinean people) -- Diseases; Kuru -- history -- Papua New Guinea; Biomedical Research -- history -- Papua New Guinea; Cannibalism -- Papua New Guinea; Funeral Rites -- Papua New Guinea; History, 20th Century -- Papua New Guinea
Genres: Biography.
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Stranger relations; title: Portrait of the scientist as a young man; title: A contemptuous tenderness; title: The scientist and his magic; title: Hearts of darkness; title: Specimen days; title: We were their people; title: Stumbling along the tortuous road.