MANUSCRIPT
Journal from Amazonia to New Guinea
- Date
- 10 Mar 1955-31 Dec 1958
- Reference
- MSX-6013
- Description
Title continues:`...on the road to kuru and the Kukukuku'. The journal comprises `Medical expedition in Amazonia to Uruma Colony of Okinawans, Rio Grande o Guapai, Bolivia and to Iquitos, Baja, Amazonas, Peru (10 Mar-9 Aug 1955); `Meandering toward Australia with travels in France, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Austria, Yugoslavia, Greece, Turkey, Iran, Pakistan, Thailand, Malaya and Singapore' (10 Aug-15 Oct 1955); Australia and New Guinea, virology to autoimmunology, ethnopediatrics to kuru, enchantment by Melanesians, politics in science (Oct 1955-31 Dec 1957); and `Return travels to USA' which includes first year of kuru study in New Guinea and back in USA after three years of absence from America starting kuru studies at the National Institues of Health (1 Jan-31 Dec 1958)
Quantity: 1 volume(s).
- Use/Reproduction
- Not to be circulated or quoted from without written permission of donor
- Access restrictions
- No access restrictions
- Part of
- Gajdusek, D Carleton, 1923- : Papers
- Format
- 1 volume(s), Manuscripts
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