Kuru Sorcery: Disease and Danger in the New Guinea Highlands by Shirley Lindenbaum

Kuru Sorcery: Disease and Danger in the New Guinea Highlands

Shirley Lindenbaum

240 pages first pub 1978 (editions)

nonfiction challenging informative medium-paced
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Perhaps the best-documented epidemic in the history of medicine, kuru has been studied for more than fifty years by international investigators from medicine and the human sciences. This significantly revised edition of the landmark anthropologica...

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