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Martha Macintyre

Martha Macintyre is an anthropologist who initially studied History at The University of Melbourne and then moved on to postgraduate study in Anthropology at The University of Cambridge (UK) and gained her PhD at The Australian National University.

Martha Macintyre reviews 'The Collectors Of Lost Souls: Turning Kuru scientists into whitemen' by Warwick Anderson

February 2009, no. 308 28 October 2020
In 1976 Carleton Gajdusek received the Nobel Prize for his scientific research into Kuru, a degenerative brain disease that afflicted a small population of Fore people in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea. This book is the story of the complexities of that scientific discovery as a social process. It is also the story of Gajdusek, a medical scientist whose intellectual energy and boundless egotism ... (read more)