Kuru Sorcery: Disease and Danger in the New Guinea Highlands

Kuru Sorcery: Disease and Danger in the New Guinea Highlands

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 anthropological classic Kuru Sorcery brings up to date the anthropological contribution to understanding disease, the medical research that resulted in two Nobel Prizes in medicine, and the views of the Fore people who endured the epidemic and who still believe that sorcerers, rather than cannibalism, caused kuru. The kuru epidemic serves as a prism through which to see how Fore notions of disease causation bring into single focus their views about the body, the world of social and spiritual relations, and changes in economic and political conditionsâ€•aspects of thought and behavior that biomedicine keeps separate.
Country USA
Brand Routledge
Manufacturer Routledge
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber NUSTBK20171230-C0086996
ReleaseDate 2013-06-30
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781612052762

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