Author: Daniel Carleton GajdusekPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Irian Jaya (Indonesia)
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Journal of Further Explorations in the Kuru Region and in the Kukukuku Country, Eastern Highlands of Eastern New Guinea and of a Return to West New Guinea
Author: Daniel Carleton GajdusekPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Irian Jaya (Indonesia)
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Melanesian Journal
Author: Daniel Carleton GajdusekPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Doktor Bilong Kuru
Author: Annette N BeasleyPublisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1669880974
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
In 1957, European discovery of an unknown, fatal disease known locally as “kuru,” afflicting the remote Fore people of the Eastern Highlands of New Guinea prompted an influx of European medical investigators into the region. The early years of the inquiry were fraught as rival teams of investigators jostled for control over the research. In an attempt to resolve the friction, in 1963 the Australian Administrators of New Guinea appointed New Zealand neurologist, Richard Hornabrook, Chief Clinical Investigator of kuru, based at the remote Eastern Highland Patrol Post of Okapa. The family’s two years at the settlement offer fascinating insights into Hornabrook’s work investigating kuru and life on a remote Patrol Post inhabited by a dozen adult Europeans, an Australian Assistant Commissioner, and contingent of local police.
Why They Kill
Author: Richard RhodesPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 1101972033
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Why do some men, women and even children assault, batter, rape, mutilate and murder? In his stunning new book, the Pulitzer Prize-winner Richard Rhodes provides a startling and persuasive answer. Why They Killexplores the discoveries of a maverick American criminologist, Dr. Lonnie Athens -- himself the child of a violent family -- which challenge conventional theories about violent behavior. By interviewing violent criminals in prison, Dr. Athens has identified a pattern of social development common to all seriously violent people -- a four-stage process he calls "violentization": -- First, brutalization: A young person is forced by violence or the threat of violence to submit to an aggressive authority figure; he witnesses the violent subjugation of intimates, and the authority figure coaches him to use violence to settle disputes. -- Second, belligerency: The dispirited subject, determined to prevent his further violent subjugation, heeds his coach and resolves to resort to violence. -- Third, violent performances: His violent response to provocation succeeds, and he reads respect and fear in the eyes of others. -- Fourth, virulency: Exultant, he determines from now on to utilize serious violence as a means of dealing with people -- and he bonds with others who believe as he does. Since all four stages must be fully experienced in sequence and completed to produce a violent individual, we see how intervening to interrupt the process can prevent a tragic outcome. Rhodes supports Athens's theory with historical evidence and shows how it explains such violent careers as those of Perry Smith (the killer central to Truman Capote's narrative In Cold Blood), Mike Tyson, "preppy rapist" Alex Kelly, and Lee Harvey Oswald. Why They Kill challenges with devastating evidence the theory that violent behavior is impulsive, unconsciously motivated and predetermined. It offers compelling insights into the terrible, ongoing dilemma of criminal violence that plagues families, neighborhoods, cities and schools.
Bibliography of the History of Medicine
Author: Journal of Further Explorations in the Kuru Region and in the Kukukuku Country 1963-1964
Author: D. Carleton GajdusekPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Asia and Oceania
Author: G. Raymond NunnPublisher: Burns & Oates
ISBN: 9780720117134
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
National Library of Medicine Current Catalog
Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 1080
Book Description
A New Guinea Bibliography
Author: Current Catalog
Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 1068
Book Description
First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.