The Collectors of Lost Souls: Turning Kuru Scientists into Whitemen by Warwick Anderson

The Collectors of Lost Souls: Turning Kuru Scientists into Whitemen

Warwick Anderson

328 pages first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction science emotional informative slow-paced
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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 col...

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