The Search for a Cause: An Anthropological Perspective on a Neurological Disease in Guam, Western Pacific

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In this anthropological study of a neurodegenerative disease, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis/Parkinsonism-Dementia Complex (ALS/PDC) in Guam, Western Pacific, Verena Keck intertwines three separate perspectives of history, medicine, and anthropology.

The book is an important contribution to the long overdue decolonizing of biomedical research and argues that neurological diseases can be better understood if they are seen, too, as social and...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:1935198017

ISBN13:9781935198017

Release Date:July 2012

Publisher:Richard Flores Taitano Micronesian Area Resea

Length:268 Pages

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