Medicine - Papua New Guinea - Kuru
Miscellaneous papers
Date: 1936-1960
From: Fortune, Reo Franklin, 1903-1979: Papers
Reference: 80-323-310
Description: Material comprises reference for Fortune from Professor Franz Boaz, 1936; correspondence from Fortune to the Burmese Assistant Accountant General, 1947; typescript notes on the island of Dobu; reprint by Fortune `Statistics of kuru,' 1960; notes from Gordan Childe on women; miscellaneous pages Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss, typescript and printed material
Nelson, Hank, fl 1964-2001 : Papers on kuru disease in New Guinea
Date: 1956-2001
From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area
Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-1271
Description: Official correspondence files of Dr John Gunther; census returns from South Fore; development and reasearch files on the Okapa area; Professor Nelson's own research files including correspondence and talks; unpublished papers; press cuttings. Source of title - Transcribed Professor Nelson also collected a large body of scientific reports on kuru, which have been listed but not microfilmed, due to copyright regulations. Quantity: 3 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: See http://rspas.anu.edu.au/pambu/. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, PMB, 2006
Printed material relating to health issues concerning indigenous peoples
Date: 1957-1964
From: Fortune, Reo Franklin, 1903-1979: Papers
Reference: 80-323-180
Description: Material comprises eleven reprints and articles on health issues affecting indigenous peoples. Types of issues are paralysis agitans in natives of New Guinea, phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency in Micronesian peoples, measles in Australasian indigenes, genetics of primitive human populations, scrapie etc Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Printed material
Gunther, John Thomas (Sir), 1910-1984 : Papers on health administration in Papua New Gu...
Date: 1947-1984
From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area
Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-1267
Description: The papers document many aspects of Gunther's administration of public health in Papua New Guinea. They include correspondence, draft articles and reports and many published and unpublished research papers Source of title - Transcribed from item Dr Gunther was Director of Public Health in Papua New Guinea 1946-1957. Quantity: 6 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: See http://rspas.anu.edu.au/pambu/. Provenance: Dr Gunther gave the papers to Dr Roy Scragg, his successor as Director of Public Health in PNG, who transferred them to PMB in 2005
Offprints and other printed matter
Date: 1917-1977
From: Fortune, Reo Franklin, 1903-1979: Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-11782-12
Description: Off-prints of articles from various periodicals. Include 'On joking relationships' by A R Radcliffe-Brown (1937), 'The Government of subject peoples' by W H R Rivers (1917), 'Potlatch and Hakiri, an anaalysis of Maori society in terms of the potlatch model' by Paula G Rubel and Abraham Rosman (1971), 'Enemies and affines' by Paula Brown (1964), 'Rituals of rebellion in South-East Africa' by Max Gluckman (1952), 'Doctor Bromilow and the Bwaidoka wars' by Michael W Young (1977), 'Kuru in the New Guinea highlands' by D C Gajdusek (1973). Quantity: 1 folder(s).