The collectors of lost souls : turning kuru scientists into whitemen / Warwick Anderson.

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When whites first encountered the Fore people in the isolated highlands of colonial New Guinea during the 1940s and 1950s, they found a people in the grip of a bizarre epidemic. Women and children succumbed to muscle weakness, uncontrollable tremors, and lack of coordination, until death inevitably...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Anderson, Warwick, 1958- (Author)
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2019]
Edition:Updated edition.
Subjects:
Gajdusek, D. Carleton > (Daniel Carleton), > 1923-2008.
Kuru > Papua New Guinea > History.
Virologists > United States > Biography.
Neurologists > United States > Biography.
Fore (Papua New Guinean people) > Diseases.
Cannibalism > Papua New Guinea.
Kuru > history.
Biomedical Research > history.
Cannibalism.
Funeral Rites.
Social Change.
History, 20th Century.
Papua New Guinea > epidemiology.
Kuru.
Neurologists.
Virologists.
Papua New Guinea.
United States.
Fore.
Kannibalismus.
Papua-Neuguinea.
Biographies.
History.
Genre:
Biography.
Biographies.
History.
Physical Description:332 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Format: Book

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