China journal with a circuit through New Zealand...

Full title: China journal with a circuit through New Zealand, Australia, Papua New Guinea, Hawaii and Geneva and two trips to London, 4 January to April 30 1983. Comprises detailed account of Gajdusek's investigations in China, especially into haemorrhagic fever and renal syndrome and neurological disorders, with descriptions of China, its people and history. The New Zealand journal is an account of the XVth Pacific Science Congress in Dunedin (22 Jan-12 Feb) in which he especially describes the NZ doctors he meets and their families; he also spends considerable time in the Turnbull Library. In New Guinea he deswcribes resarch into kuru, gives detailed tribal statistics and general views on the populations he meets. The Hawaiian journal describes a workshop on hemorrhagic fever, the Geneva on the Study Group on developmental Neurobiology, in London at the workshop on the immunology of insulin-dependent diabetes melitius, the Lilly lecture. The appendix gives mileage, tragel times and expenses for South Island travel, lists of people to send kuru books to, lists of books and other material

Quantity: 1 folder(s) (291 leaves).