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
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