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The Collectors of Lost Souls: Turning Kuru Scientists into Whitemen (2008)

Anderson, Warwick H. (Author)

Johns Hopkins University Press

ISBN: 9780801890406

Publication Date: 2008
Physical Details: 318 pp.; ill.; maps; bibl.; index
Language: English

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Medicine Disease and diseases Cross-cultural interaction; cultural influence Prion diseases 20th century, late New Guinea

Description On a fatal brain disease discovered among the native inhabitants of colonial New Guinea in the 1940s and the anthropologists and other scientists who studied them.

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Review Cooter, Roger (2009) Review of "The Collectors of Lost Souls: Turning Kuru Scientists into Whitemen". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 941). unapi

Review Kennedy, Dane (2009) Review of "The Collectors of Lost Souls: Turning Kuru Scientists into Whitemen". Social History of Medicine (p. 657). unapi

Review Hamlin, Christopher (2010) Review of "The Collectors of Lost Souls: Turning Kuru Scientists into Whitemen". British Journal for the History of Science (p. 141). unapi

Review Casper, Stephen (2011) Review of "The Collectors of Lost Souls: Turning Kuru Scientists into Whitemen". Journal of the History of the Neurosciences (p. 160). unapi

Essay Review Dunbar, Deanne; Kushner, Howard I. (2011) Universalism in Context. Annals of Science: The History of Science and Technology (pp. 125-132). unapi

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