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The trembling mountain
a personal account of kuru, cannibals, and mad cow disease
By Klitzman, Robert
- ISBN
- 978-0-30645-792-0
- Publisher
- New York : Plenum Trade, c1998.
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Reviewed on October 1, 1998
YA In 1981, Klitzman embarked on an NIH-sponsored research excursion to Papua New Guinea, to locate, interview, and compile pedigrees of Fore tribesmen suffering from Kuru, a disease of the brain. Traditionally, until it was outlawed in the 1970s, the Fore celebrated the deaths of their relatives by cooking and consuming them in roasted banana leaves. The closest blood relatives were given the most important body parts-pieces of brain. Klitzman had to determine if there was a connection to the sprea...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
