Title: The collectors of lost souls
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.
Subjects: 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, Kannibalismus
Places: Papua New Guinea, United States
People: D. Carleton Gajdusek (1923-)