The trembling mountain: a personal account of kuru, cannibals, and mad cow disease
Santé et médecine, Médecine
Audio avec voix humaine
Résumé
Recounts the author's experiences in Papua New Guinea in 1981 studying kuru, an illness caused by essentially the same infectious agent as in Mad Cow disease. Documents his encounters with the Stone Age Fore group that practices cannibalism. Discusses the… difficulties and triumphs of conducting field work in epidemiology and medical anthropology. 1998.
Description du titre
ISBN
9780306457920
Éditeur
Plenum Trade
Année
1998
Cote
2431644
Description de la version audio du CAÉB
Narrateur
Butch Hoover
Durée
10 heures 6 minutes 4 secondes
Producteur
Library of Congress, NLS/BPH (Louisville, Ky. : American Printing House for the Blind), 2001.