Collectors of Lost Souls Turning Kuru Scientists into Whitemen

Name: Collectors of Lost Souls Turning Kuru Scientists into Whitemen
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ISBN: 9780801890406

ISBN-10: 0801890403

ISBN-13: 9780801890406

Edition: 2008

Authors: Warwick Anderson

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This riveting 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. 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 supervened. Facing extinction, the Fore attributed their unique and terrifying affliction to a particularly malign form of sorcery. The Collectors of Lost Souls tells the story of the resilience of the Fore through this…

Book details

List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 11/28/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 328
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English

For twenty years Warwick Anderson, medical doctor and historian of science, has been studying kuru, those who were infected by the disease, and the scientists who identified and investigated it. He is the author of Colonial Pathologies: American Tropical Medicine and Racial Hygiene in the Philippines and The Cultivation of Whiteness: Science, Health, and Racial Destiny in Australia.



Introduction: The Disease Europeans Catch from Kuru



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


Conclusion: Denouement Was a Bit Difficult


Acknowledgments


List of Abbreviations


Notes


Bibliography


Index