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An edition of The collectors of lost souls (2008)

The collectors of lost souls

turning whitemen into kuru scientists

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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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Johns Hopkins University Press
Language
English
Pages
318

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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

People

D. Carleton Gajdusek (1923-)

Places

Papua New Guinea, United States

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

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Baltimore
Genre
Biography.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
616.80092
Library of Congress
RC394.K8 A53 2008, RC394.K853

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. ;
Number of pages
318

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OL16637082M
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ISBN 10
0801890403
ISBN 13
9780801890406
LCCN
2008007840
OCLC/WorldCat
212375922
Library Thing
6528585
Goodreads
3784013

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