MELANESIAN JOURNAL: Expeditions in West and East New Guinea, Solomon Islands, New Hebrides, Fiji, and New Caledonia, to Study Child Growth and Development, Behavior and Disease Patterns, Human Genetics, and Kuru, February 22, 1963 to July 23, 1963

by Gajdusek, D. (Daniel) Carleton

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Bethesda, MD: Study of Child Growth and Development and Disease Patterns in Primitive Cultures, National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health (U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare), 1973. 227 pp. Maps, indexes. Dr. Gajdusek shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1976 with Dr. Baruch S. Blumberg for their discoveries concerning new mechanisms for the origin and dissemination of infectious diseases (in Dr. Gajdusek's case, specifically for his work on identifying the cause of kuru, a viral disease found among the South Fore, New Guinea). CONDITION: Spine covers sunned and discolored from glue; chipped at top of spine; binding is split down middle of spine. Former owner's name and "return to:" stamp on front cover. Text clean and free of all marks.. First Edition. Paperback. Fair. 28 x 22 cm.

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