The collectors of lost souls

By Warwick Anderson

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

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.