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Management number 231927860 Release Date 2026/06/18 List Price $87.94 Model Number 231927860
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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 anthropological classic Kuru Sorcery brings up to date the anthropological contribution to understanding disease, the medical research that resulted in two medical Nobel Prizes, 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 conditions-aspects of thought and behaviour that Western medicine keeps separate. Read more

ISBN10 1612052754
ISBN13 978-1612052755
Edition 2nd
Language English
Publisher Routledge
Dimensions 6.24 x 0.73 x 9.24 inches
Item Weight 1 pounds
Print length 240 pages
Publication date September 20, 2013

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