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The Collectors of Lost Souls: Turning Kuru Scientists into Whitemen. By Warwick Anderson.

Making blood ‘Melanesian’: Fieldwork and isolating techniques in genetic epidemiology (1963–1976)

“…Between 1963 and 1967, Gajdusek made five trips to the New Hebrides, almost always alongside his ongoing research on Kuru with the Fore in New Guinea, compellingly documented by Anderson (2008) and Beasley, Lepani, Lindenbaum, Spark, and Anderson (2009). 5 His stays in the New Hebrides ranged from five days to five weeks, for a total of about eleven weeks.…”