The Trembling Mountain: A Personal Account of Kuru, Cannibals, and Mad Cow Disease
Autor Robert Klitzmanen Limba Engleză Paperback – 8 noi 2001
Kuru,
like
Mad
Cow
disease,
is
caused
by
a
rare,
infectious
crystal
protein
that
invades
and
colonizes
human
cells,
destroying
the
nervous
system
of
its
victims.
There
is
no
known
cure.
It
flourished
in
one
of
the
remotest
places
on
earth,
Papua
New
Guinea,
among
the
Fore,
a
people
living
in
the
Stone
Age,
who
until
recently
practiced
ritual
cannibalism,
consuming
the
brains
of
their
forebears
during
funerary
feasts.
Robert
Klitzman
helped
establish
the
links
between
these
rituals
and
kuru.
What
he
discovered
has
provided
keys
to
understanding
the
mysterious
Mad
Cow
Disease,
which
may
become
the
world's
next
major
epidemic.
Robert
Klitzman
was
21
years
old
when
he
was
invited
by
the
Nobel
prize-winning
scientist
Dr.
Carleton
Gajdusek,
then
at
the
National
Institutes
of
Health,
to
conduct
original
research
on
kuru.
Seizing
the
chance
to
travel
to
the
other
end
of
the
world,
Klitzman
embarked
on
an
adventure
that
would
change
his
life.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780738206141
ISBN-10: 0738206148
Pagini: 344
Dimensiuni: 227 x 151 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Editura: Hachette Book Group
Colecția Da Capo Press
Locul publicării:United States
ISBN-10: 0738206148
Pagini: 344
Dimensiuni: 227 x 151 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Editura: Hachette Book Group
Colecția Da Capo Press
Locul publicării:United States
Notă biografică
Dr.
Robert
Klitzman,
currently
an
Assistant
Professor
of
Clinical
Psychiatry
at
the
College
of
Physicians
and
Surgeons
of
Columbia
University,
is
the
author
of
Being
Positive:
The
Lives
of
Men
and
Women
with
HIV,
A
Year-Long
Night:
Tales
of
A
Medical
Internship
and
In
a
House
of
Dreams
and
Glass:
Becoming
a
Psychiatrist.
He
graduated
from
Princeton
University
and
Yale
Medical
School,
and
has
been
a
Robert
Wood
Johnson
Foundation
Clinical
Scholar
at
the
University
of
Pennsylvania.
His
work
has
appeared
in
scientific
journals
and
textbooks,
as
well
as
the
New
York
Times
and
other
publications.
He
has
recieved
numerous
honors
and
awards,
including
a
Burroughs
Wellcome
Fellowship
(for
Future
Leaders
in
Psychiatry)
from
the
American
Psychiatric
Association,
an
Aaron
Diamond
Foundation
Fellowship,
and
a
Picker/Commonwealth
Scholar
Award.
He
has
also
been
a
Fellow
at
Yaddo
and
MacDowell.