Author : R. W. Hornabrook
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Nature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105035453781
Essays on Kuru
R. W. Hornabrook
Essays On Kuru
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Kuru Sorcery
Shirley Lindenbaum
Author : Shirley Lindenbaum
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317264729
Kuru Sorcery by Shirley Lindenbaum Pdf
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.
The Collectors of Lost Souls
Warwick Anderson
Author : Warwick Anderson
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-27
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781421433608
The Collectors of Lost Souls by Warwick Anderson Pdf
This astonishing story links first-contact encounters in New Guinea with laboratory experiments in Bethesda, Maryland; sorcery with science; cannibalism with compassion; and slow viruses with infectious proteins, reshaping our understanding of what it means to do science.
Adverse Effects of Foods
E. F. Jelliffe
Author : E. F. Jelliffe
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781461333593
Adverse Effects of Foods by E. F. Jelliffe Pdf
Wielding Words like Weapons
Ward Churchill
Author : Ward Churchill
Publisher : PM Press
Page : 874 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781629633114
Wielding Words like Weapons by Ward Churchill Pdf
Wielding Words like Weapons is a collection of acclaimed American Indian Movement activist-intellectual Ward Churchill’s essays in indigenism, selected from material written during the decade 1995–2005. It includes a range of formats, from sharply framed book reviews and equally pointed polemics and op-eds to more formal essays designed to reach both scholarly and popular audiences. The selection also represents the broad range of topics addressed in Churchill’s scholarship, including the fallacies of archeological and anthropological orthodoxy such as the insistence of “cannibalogists” that American Indians were traditionally maneaters, Hollywood’s cinematic degradations of native people, questions of American Indian identity, the historical and ongoing genocide of North America’s native peoples, and the systematic distortion of the political and legal history of U.S.-Indian relations. Less typical of Churchill’s oeuvre are the essays commemorating Cherokee anthropologist Robert K. Thomas and Yankton Sioux legal scholar and theologian Vine Deloria Jr. More unusual still is his profoundly personal effort to come to grips with the life and death of his late wife, Leah Renae Kelly, thereby illuminating in very human terms the grim and lasting effects of Canada’s residential schools upon the country’s indigenous peoples. A foreword by Seneca historian Barbara Alice Mann describes the sustained efforts by police and intelligence agencies as well as university administrators and other academic adversaries to discredit or otherwise “neutralize” both the man and his work. Also included are both the initial “stream-of-consciousness” version of Churchill’s famous—or notorious—“little Eichmanns” opinion piece analyzing the causes of the attacks on 9/11, as well as the counterpart essay in which his argument was fully developed.
Subsistence and Survival
Timothy P. Bayliss-Smith
Author : Timothy P. Bayliss-Smith
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781483288116
Subsistence and Survival by Timothy P. Bayliss-Smith Pdf
Subsistence and Survival: Rural Ecology in the Pacific covers the ecology of man's environment, man's use and perception of biological resources, and the physiology and health of the human organism itself. The geographical range of this text extends from the glaciated uplands of Papua New Guinea, through the montane forests and grasslands of the Highlands, into the coastal jungles, and across to the smaller islands and atolls of the South West Pacific. This book is organized into five parts encompassing 14 chapters. The first part deals with the theory and applications of human ecology. The next part considers first the International Biological Program in New Guinea concerning the link between human ecology and biomedical research. This part also explores the nutritional adaptation among the Enga and in Melanesia, and then introduces the principles of environmental health engineering as human ecology. The subsequent two parts highlight the impact of human activities on the environment, with an emphasis on the association between environmental exploitation and human subsistence. The final part discusses the relevance of self-subsistence communities for world ecosystem management. This book will be of great value to anthropologists, geographers, human biologists, nutritionists, botanists, and public health engineers.
Protein Aggregation and Fibrillogenesis in Cerebral and Systemic Amyloid Disease
J. Robin Harris
Author : J. Robin Harris
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 654 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-09
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789400754164
Protein Aggregation and Fibrillogenesis in Cerebral and Systemic Amyloid Disease by J. Robin Harris Pdf
This volume of the Subcellular Biochemistry series is the result of the long-standing research interest of the editor in the molecular mechanism underlying Alzheimer’s disease and other amyloid diseases, indicated also by the earlier book in the series (Volume 38), devoted to Alzheimer’s disease. The broad coverage within the present amyloidogenesis book represents an attempt to collate current knowledge relating to the proteins and peptides involved in most of the known amyloid diseases, together with some amyloid/fibril-forming proteins and peptides that are not involved in diseases. Thus, the range of topics included is comprehensive and furthermore it was thought appropriate to include both basic science and clinical presentation of the subjects under discussion.
Cannibalism and the Colonial World
Francis Barker,Peter Hulme,Margaret Iversen
Author : Francis Barker,Peter Hulme,Margaret Iversen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1998-08-06
Category : History
ISBN : 052162908X
Cannibalism and the Colonial World by Francis Barker,Peter Hulme,Margaret Iversen Pdf
In this 1998 book, an international team from a variety of disciplines discusses the historical and cultural significance of cannibalism.
Coevolution
William H. Durham
Author : William H. Durham
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0804721564
Coevolution by William H. Durham Pdf
Charles Darwin's "On the Origins of Species" had two principal goals: to show that species had not been separately created and to show that natural selection had been the main force behind their proliferation and descent from common ancestors. In "Coevolution," the author proposes a powerful new theory of cultural evolution--that is, of the descent with modification of the shared conceptual systems we call "cultures"--that is parallel in many ways to Darwin's theory of organic evolution. The author suggests that a process of cultural selection, or preservation by preference, driven chiefly by choice or imposition depending on the circumstances, has been the main but not exclusive force of cultural change. He shows that this process gives rise to five major patterns or "modes" in which cultural change is at odds with genetic change. Each of the five modes is discussed in some detail and its existence confirmed through one or more case studies chosen for their heuristic value, the robustness of their data, and their broader implications. But "Coevolution" predicts not simply the existence of the five modes of gene-culture relations; it also predicts their relative importance in the ongoing dynamics of cultural change in particular cases. The case studies themselves are lucid and innovative reexaminations of an array of oft-pondered anthropological topics--plural marriage, sickle-cell anemia, basic color terms, adult lactose absorption, incest taboos, headhunting, and cannibalism. In a general case, the author's goal is to demonstrate that an evolutionary analysis of both genes and culture has much to contribute to our understanding of human diversity, particularly behavioral diversity, and thus to the resolution of age-old questions about nature and nurture, genes and culture.
The Man-Eating Myth
William Arens
Author : William Arens
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1980-09-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780190281205
The Man-Eating Myth by William Arens Pdf
A fascinating and well-researched look into what we really know about cannibalism.
Plagues and Epidemics
D. Ann Herring,Alan C. Swedlund
Author : D. Ann Herring,Alan C. Swedlund
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000181555
Plagues and Epidemics by D. Ann Herring,Alan C. Swedlund Pdf
Until recently, plagues were thought to belong in the ancient past. Now there are deep worries about global pandemics. This book presents views from anthropology about this much publicized and complex problem. The authors take us to places where epidemics are erupting, waning, or gone, and to other places where they have not yet arrived, but where a frightening story line is already in place. They explore public health bureaucracies and political arenas where the power lies to make decisions about what is, and is not, an epidemic. They look back into global history to uncover disease trends and look ahead to a future of expanding plagues within the context of climate change. The chapters are written from a range of perspectives, from the science of modeling epidemics to the social science of understanding them. Patterns emerge when people are engulfed by diseases labeled as epidemics but which have the hallmarks of plague. There are cycles of shame and blame, stigma, isolation of the sick, fear of contagion, and end-of-the-world scenarios. Plague, it would seem, is still among us.
Bibliography of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
Clarence J. Gibbs,Colin L. Masters,Daniel Carleton Gajdusek
Author : Clarence J. Gibbs,Colin L. Masters,Daniel Carleton Gajdusek
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Central nervous system
ISBN : MINN:30000005139831
Bibliography of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease by Clarence J. Gibbs,Colin L. Masters,Daniel Carleton Gajdusek Pdf
Scientific Directory and Annual Bibliography
National Institutes of Health (U.S.)
Author : National Institutes of Health (U.S.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Medical research personnel
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119622475
Scientific Directory and Annual Bibliography by National Institutes of Health (U.S.) Pdf
Published Scientific Papers of the National Institutes of Health
National Institutes of Health (U.S.)
Author : National Institutes of Health (U.S.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Biochemistry
ISBN : UOM:39015082380273
Published Scientific Papers of the National Institutes of Health by National Institutes of Health (U.S.) Pdf
Each issue lists papers published during the preceding year.
Neurodegenerative Diseases
Shamim I. Ahmad
Author : Shamim I. Ahmad
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-12
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781461406532
Neurodegenerative Diseases by Shamim I. Ahmad Pdf
The editor of this volume, having research interests in the field of ROS production and the damage to cellular systems, has identified a number of enzymes showing ·OH scavenging activities details of which are anticipated to be published in the near future as confirmatory experiments are awaited. It is hoped that the information presented in this book on NDs will stimulate both expert and novice researchers in the field with excellent overviews of the current status of research and pointers to future research goals. Clinicians, nurses as well as families and caregivers should also benefit from the material presented in handling and treating their specialised cases. Also the insights gained should be valuable for further understanding of the diseases at molecular levels and should lead to development of new biomarkers, novel diagnostic tools and more effective therapeutic drugs to treat the clinical problems raised by these devastating diseases.