Collectors of Lost Souls - Turning Kuru Scientists Into Whitemen

This astonishing story links first-contact encounters in New Guinea with laboratory experiments in Bethesda, Maryland; sorcery with science; cannibalism with compassion; and slow viruses with infectious proteins, reshaping our understanding of what it means to do science.

About the author

Warwick Anderson is an Australian Research Council laureate fellow and a professor in the Department of History and the Center for Values, Ethics, and the Law in Medicine at the University of Sydney. He is the author of The Collectors of Lost Souls: Turning Kuru Scientists into Whitemen, also published by Johns Hopkins.

Summary

This astonishing story links first-contact encounters in New Guinea with laboratory experiments in Bethesda, Maryland; sorcery with science; cannibalism with compassion; and slow viruses with infectious proteins, reshaping our understanding of what it means to do science.

Product details

• Authors: Warwick Anderson, Warwick (Professorial Research Fellow Anderson
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2019
• EAN: 9781421433608
• ISBN: 978-1-4214-3360-8
• No. of pages: 352
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous; MEDICAL / Diseases, SCIENCE / History, Anthropology, MEDICAL / History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, History of Medicine, History of Science, Diseases & disorders