Laughing Death

The Untold Story of Kuru
Softcover Nachdruck of the original 1. Auflage 1990
ISBN: 978-1-4612-8843-5
Verlag: Humana Press

Buch, Englisch, 315 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 517 g

It has been a difficult, sometimes painful, story to tell in its entirety, but I have done my best to be accurate both in facts and in dates, for I feel that l owe the truth to the many who have become valued acquaintances, and sometimes friends. All these have constantly requested more news of my "Green Dwelling" and my discovery of a fatal neurological disease previously unknown to Western medicine. This book is for them, in lieu of letters that I ought to have written and did not. It is also my concern to produce innocent amusement, unrestricted by canon or precedent, for those who require some relaxation from the fatigue generated by so many parasitic forms of life in this less than perfect world.
My peers, the medical scientists, who read this will realize that this book is neither a scientific treatise, nor a balance-sheet of all the achievements and failures of medical science, but a presentation of the major implications of the factors that continually determine our medical ethics - including some of the less prizeworthy drawbacks. 

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zigas, Vincent

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Ethnomedizin
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Ost- & Südostasiatische Literatur
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Humanbiologie Physische Anthropologie, Paläoanthropologie, Evolutionäre Anthropologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

The Island and I.- The Threshold.- Martial People with Dignity.- Denizens of the High Valleys.- The Mountains Fretted with Evil Spell.- Cheerful Optimism.- Opening the Pathways to Kuru Research.- Pioneers Against the Dreaded Scourge.- Meandering Pathways of Kuru Research.- Epilog.