For almost thirty years Warwick Anderson, medical doctor and historian of science, has been studying kuru, those who were affected by the disease, and the scientists who identified and investigated it. Based at the University of Sydney, he is the Janet Dora Hine Professor of Politics, Governance and Ethics in the Department of History. He is the author of Colonial Pathologies: American Tropical Medicine, Race, and Hygiene in the Philippines and the coauthor of Intolerant Bodies: A Short History of Autoimmunity.

• Preface to the Updated EditionIntroduction. The Disease Europeans Catch from KuruChapter 1. Stranger RelationsChapter 2. Portrait of the Scientist as a Young Man Chapter 3. A Contemptuous Tenderness Chapter 4. The Scientist and His Magic Chapter 5. Hearts of Darkness Chapter 6. Specimen Days Chapter 7. We Were Their People Chapter 8. Stumbling along the Tortuous Road Conclusion. Dénouement Was a Bit Difficult AfterwordAcknowledgments List of Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Index

For almost thirty years Warwick Anderson, medical doctor and historian of science, has been studying kuru, those who were affected by the disease, and the scientists who identified and investigated it. Based at the University of Sydney, he is the Janet Dora Hine Professor of Politics, Governance and Ethics in the Department of History. He is the author of Colonial Pathologies: American Tropical Medicine, Race, and Hygiene in the Philippines and the coauthor of Intolerant Bodies: A Short History of Autoimmunity.

• Preface to the Updated EditionIntroduction. The Disease Europeans Catch from KuruChapter 1. Stranger RelationsChapter 2. Portrait of the Scientist as a Young Man Chapter 3. A Contemptuous Tenderness Chapter 4. The Scientist and His Magic Chapter 5. Hearts of Darkness Chapter 6. Specimen Days Chapter 7. We Were Their People Chapter 8. Stumbling along the Tortuous Road Conclusion. Dénouement Was a Bit Difficult AfterwordAcknowledgments List of Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Index

For almost thirty years Warwick Anderson, medical doctor and historian of science, has been studying kuru, those who were affected by the disease, and the scientists who identified and investigated it. Based at the University of Sydney, he is the Janet Dora Hine Professor of Politics, Governance and Ethics in the Department of History. He is the author of Colonial Pathologies: American Tropical Medicine, Race, and Hygiene in the Philippines and the coauthor of Intolerant Bodies: A Short History of Autoimmunity.

• Preface to the Updated EditionIntroduction. The Disease Europeans Catch from KuruChapter 1. Stranger RelationsChapter 2. Portrait of the Scientist as a Young Man Chapter 3. A Contemptuous Tenderness Chapter 4. The Scientist and His Magic Chapter 5. Hearts of Darkness Chapter 6. Specimen Days Chapter 7. We Were Their People Chapter 8. Stumbling along the Tortuous Road Conclusion. Dénouement Was a Bit Difficult AfterwordAcknowledgments List of Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Index