Epidemiology, social history, and the beginnings of medical anthropology in the highlands of New Guinea
Shirley Lindenbaum’s study in the early 1960s of the origins and transmission of kuru among the Fore people of the eastern highlands of New Guinea is one of the earliest examples of an explicitly medical anthropology. Lindenbaum later described her investigations as assembling ‘an epidemiology of so...
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| Language: | English |
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University of Edinburgh Library
2018-04-01
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| Series: | Medicine Anthropology Theory |
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| Online Access: | http://www.medanthrotheory.org/article/view/4829 |