The collectors of lost souls

By Warwick Anderson

Subjects: Neurologists, biography, Papua new guinea, history, History, Funeral Rites, History, 20th Century, Kannibalismus, Diseases, Neurologists, Biography, Funeral rites and ceremonies, Virologists, Cannibalism, Fore (Papua New Guinean people), Kuru, Ethnology, papua new guinea, Biomedical Research

Description: 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.