Laughing death : the untold story of Kuru

Laughing death : the untold story of Kuru / by Vincent Zigas ; foreword by D. Carleton Gajdusek.

Saved in:

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Zigas, Vincent
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Clifton, N.J. : Humana Press, c1990.
Subjects:	Zigas, Vincent. Kuru > Papua New Guinea > History. Microbiologists > Germany > Biography. Physicians > Germany > Biography.

Similar Items

Kuru sorcery : disease and danger in the New Guinea highlands
by: Lindenbaum, Shirley
Published: (1979)

Love and science : a memoir
by: Vilček, J., 1933-
Published: (2016)

Robert Koch, a life in medicine and bacteriology
by: Brock, Thomas D.
Published: (1988)

Man as art : New Guinea body decoration
by: Kirk, Malcolm
Published: (1981)

Gender rituals : female initiation in Melanesia
Published: (1995)

Ethnographic presents : pioneering anthropologists in the Papua New Guinea Highlands
Published: (1992)

Cowboy and Maria in Town.
Published: (2014)

Critical Christianity : translation and denominational conflict in Papua New Guinea
by: Handman, Courtney, 1975-
Published: (2015)

Sambia sexual culture : essays from the field
by: Herdt, Gilbert H., 1949-
Published: (1999)

Coaxing the spirits to dance : art and society in the Papuan Gulf of New Guinea
by: Welsch, Robert Louis, 1950-
Published: (2006)

Inequality in New Guinea highlands societies
Published: (1982)

Industrialization in Papua New Guinea : unrealized potential?
by: McGavin, P. A. (Paul A.), 1943-
Published: (1993)

The Plight of peripheral people in Papua New Guinea
Published: (1981)

Constructing inequality : the fabrication of a hierarchy of virtue among the Etoro
by: Kelly, Raymond C. (Raymond Case), 1942-
Published: (1993)

Guardians of the flutes : idioms of masculinity : with a new preface
by: Herdt, Gilbert H., 1949-
Published: (1994)

The Cassowary's revenge : the life and death of masculinity in a New Guinea society
by: Tuzin, Donald F.
Published: (1997)

Delivering the goods : education as cargo in Papua New Guinea
by: Swatridge, Colin
Published: (1985)

Times enmeshed : gender, space, and history among the Duna of Papua New Guinea
by: Stürzenhofecker, G. (Gabriele)
Published: (1998)

Biomedicine in an unstable place : infrastructure and personhood in a Papua New Guinean hospital
by: Street, Alice
Published: (2014)

Sound and sentiment : birds, weeping, poetics, and song in Kaluli expression
by: Feld, Steven
Published: (2012)

From modern production to imagined primitive : the social world of coffee from Papua New Guinea
by: West, Paige, 1969-
Published: (2012)

Papua New Guinea Women in Culture, Business & Travel : a Profile of Papua New Guinean Women in the Fabric of Society.
by: Press, World Trade
Published: (2010)

Conservation is our government now : the politics of ecology in Papua New Guinea
by: West, Paige, 1969-
Published: (2006)

Masculinity, motherhood, and mockery : psychoanalyzing culture and the Iatmul Naven rite in New Guinea
by: Silverman, Eric Kline
Published: (2001)

Malanggan : art, memory and sacrifice
by: Küchler, Susanne
Published: (2002)

Assemblage of spirits : idea and image in New Ireland
by: Lincoln, Louise
Published: (1985)

Sun Come Up
Published: (2015)

Women of value, men of renown : new perspectives in Trobriand exchange
by: Weiner, Annette B., 1933-
Published: (1976)

Papua New Guinea Media, Internet & Telecommunications Complete Profile : This All-Inclusive Profile Includes All Three of Our Communications Reports.
by: Press, World Trade
Published: (2010)

Pepsi war
Published: (1992)

Kaluli weeping and song
Published: (1980)

Just talk : gossip, meetings, and power in a Papua New Guinea village
by: Brison, Karen J.
Published: (1992)

Wayward women : sexuality and agency in a New Guinea society
by: Wardlow, Holly
Published: (2006)

Maring hunters and traders : production and exchange in the Papua New Guinea highlands
by: Healey, Christopher J.
Published: (1990)

Easter in Kandep
Published: (2009)

New life in Nauro-Gor community
Published: (2012)

New Ireland : art of the South Pacific
Published: (2006)

Fruit of the motherland : gender in an egalitarian society
by: Lepowsky, Maria Alexandra
Published: (1993)

People in between : a case study on the Kumil Timber Project, Madang Province, Papua New Guinea
by: Renner, Daniela
Published: (1990)

Mothers of money, daughters of coffee : the Wok Meri movement
by: Sexton, Lorraine, 1947-
Published: (1986)