Dr daniel carleton gajdusek (9 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Decline and Fall of Prospect Hill: The End of a Decade of Manorial Living The Decline and Fall of Prospect Hill: The End of a Decade of Manorial Living (covering January 1 - December 31, 1989) is an incompletely edited, unpublished diary manuscript by Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, the 1976 Nobel laureate who identified kuru. It is one volume in his annual journals documenting life at Prospect Hill, the dilapidated eighteenth-century estate in Frederick, Maryland, where he housed a large surrogate family of mostly Papua New Guinean and Melanesian boys. Key facts: It follows the 1988 volume, Duodeca-Log: A Journal of Twelve Departures From and Returns to Prospect Hill, and precedes the 1990 volume, Year of Reentrenchment in a Wonderland of Infectious Amyloids. The manuscript was held in the personal collection of Michael Alpers in Fremantle, Australia, and is cited in scholarship on Gajdusek's household (e.g., Family Man in Oceania, 2007, and Carleton's Kids in The Journal of Pacific History, 2009). This Journal is in fine condition and has no damage, wear or blemishes. See photos.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Stumbling Along the Tortuous Road to Unanticipated Nobility: Melanesian, Indonesian, and Malaysian Expedition, November 16, 1975 - December 31, 1976 is one of the personal expedition journals written by Dr. Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, the American physician and 1976 Nobel laureate who identified kuru as an infectious disease. It chronicles his fieldwork in Melanesia, Indonesia, and Malaysia during the period just after he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (hence the " unanticipated nobility " in the title), and is part of a long series of such journals spanning his research career from 1955 to 1996. Author: Daniel Carleton Gajdusek Published: 1996, by the Study of Child Growth and Development and Disease Patterns in Primitive Cultures, National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke This Journal is in fine condition and has no damage, wear or blemishes. See photos.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Viliuisk Encephalomyelitis: Journals of Unrequited Quests for Etiology is a 311-page self-published monograph by Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, released in January 1996 by the Laboratory of Central Nervous System Studies, NINDS, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland. It compiles Gajdusek's personal field journals and research notes from 1976, 1979, 1991, 1992, and 1993, chronicling his decades-long, ultimately unsuccessful quest to identify the causative agent of Viliuisk encephalomyelitis—an endemic, fatal neurological disease of the Sakha (Yakut) people of central Siberia. The work documents Gajdusek's repeated attempts to isolate the pathogen, test genetic, geobiochemical, and ecological hypotheses, and trace the disease's spread from the mid-Viliui region to areas around Yakutsk. Despite strong clinical, neuropathologic, and epidemiologic evidence for an infectious etiology, the causative agent remains unidentified to this day This Journal is in fine condition and has no damage, wear or blemishes. See photos. Inscribed by Author(s). …

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Melanesian and Micronesian Journals: Medical Expeditions to the South Pacific, January 1, 1965 to December 31, 1965 is a diary by D. Carleton Gajdusek (1923-2008) documenting his medical research expeditions in the South Pacific during 1965. The work is divided into two main parts: Melanesian Journal: Covering the expedition to the New Hebrides, Solomon Islands, Manus, New Britain, and New Guinea from January 23 to April 7, 1965. Melanesian and Micronesian Journal: Covering return expeditions to the New Hebrides, Caroline Islands, and New Guinea from July 29 to December 20, 1965. Published in 1993 by the Laboratory of Central Nervous System Studies at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, the journal details Gajduseks investigations into kuru, a fatal neurodegenerative disease, as well as studies on child growth, development, and disease patterns in these regions. This book is a single volume of approximately 383 pages. This Journal is in fine condition and has no damage, wear or blemishes. See photos.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Melanesian and Micronesian Journal - Return Expeditions to the New Hebrides, Caroline Islands, and New Guinea: July 29, 1965 to December 20, 1965 is a travel diary by Nobel laureate Daniel Carleton Gajdusek (1923 - 2008), documenting his late 1965 medical expeditions across Melanesia and Micronesia. Published in 1993 by the Laboratory of Central Nervous System Studies, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health (Bethesda, Md.) Subjects: kuru, medical geography, cultural anthropology, diaries/personal narratives, travel in Melanesia and Micronesia Part of: Gajdusek's larger series of field journals (e.g., the companion Melanesian Journal: Expedition to New Hebrides, Solomon Islands, Manus, New Britain, and New Guinea, Jan 23 - Apr 7 1965); manuscript holdings are at the National Library of Medicine and Online Archive of California This Journal is in fine condition and has no damage, wear or blemishes. See photos.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. 3 Book Set of Dr D. Carleton Gajdusek's Journals This is a set of 3 Journals of Dr. D. Carleton Gajdusek from his expeditions to New Guinea, the Kuru region and the South Pacific, namely these three journals. 1. New Guinea Journal - Oct 2 1961 to Aug 4 1962 2. Journal of Further Explorations in the Kuru Region - Dec 25 1963 to May 4 1964 3. South Pacific Expedition - Jan 26 - May 12 1967 During his expeditions, Gajdusek was pursuing two overlapping research programs under his NIH directorship of the Study of Child Growth and Development and Disease Patterns in Primitive Cultures: 1. Kuru and Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies 2. Child Growth, Development, and Population Genetics These three journals are in Fine condition with no damage, wear or blemishes. All three have inscriptions from Dr. Gajdusek to Joshua Lederberg who was a Nobel Prize winner in 1958. He was also President of the Rockefeller University, which could explain the Rockefeller University stickers that can be found inside the front cover of these journals. Inscribed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. South Pacific Expedition to the New Hebrides and to the Fore, Kukukuku and Genatei Peoples of New Guinea is the full title of the journal by Dr. Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, which was originally published in 1967 and revised/reprinted in 1982. This journal is one of a long series of detailed field journals Gajdusek kept across his Pacific research career, including: Journal of a Trip to the Shepherd, Banks, and Torres Islands and to Espiritu Santo and Efate in the New Hebrides (Nov 15 - Dec 25, 1963) Melanesian Journal: Expedition to New Hebrides, Solomon Islands, Manus, New Britain and New Guinea (Jan 23 - Apr 7, 1965) Melanesian and Micronesian Journal: Return Expeditions to the New Hebrides, Caroline Islands and New Guinea (Jul 29 - Dec 20, 1965) Journal of an Expedition to the Western Caroline Islands (1961, reprinted 1976) The 1967 South Pacific Expedition journal is described by rare-book dealers as one of his "scarcer (and longer) works." It is held in manuscript form at the National Library of Medicine. This Journal is in excellent condition, it has no wear, damage or blemishes and it has been dedicated to Joshua Lederberg by Dr Gajdusek with a handwritten inscription - see photos.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Journal of Further Explorations in the Kuru Region - Dec 25, 1963 - May 4, 1964 This is the travel/field diary by Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, the 1976 Nobel laureate who identified kuru as a transmissible prion disease. The journal records his expedition from Dec 25, 1963 - May 4, 1964, covering the Kuru region and Kukukuku country in the Eastern Highlands of Eastern New Guinea (Papua New Guinea) plus a return visit to West New Guinea (Irian Jaya). Key details: • Published: Bethesda, Md. - U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, National Institutes of Health, 1980 (235 pp., illustrated; cover title - Journal, 1963-1964). • Genre: autobiography / diary; subjects include medical geography, kuru epidemiology, and Papua New Guinea description and travel. This Journal is in excellent condition, it has no wear, damage or blemishes and it has been dedicated to Joshua Lederberg by Dr Gajdusek with a handwritten inscription - see photos.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. New Guinea journal, October 2, 1961 to August 4, 1962 is a typed field journal by Nobel laureate D. Carleton Gajdusek (1923-2008), chronicling his medical-ethnographic expedition to the highlands of New Guinea. It was published in 1968 by the Study of Child Growth and Development and Disease Patterns in Primitive Cultures, National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Blindness, Bethesda, Md., and is written in English under the subject heading Tropical Medicine. • The manuscript is held in the D. Carleton Gajdusek Papers (NLM History of Medicine Division) and the Online Archive of California (Box 11, Folder 2), part of his Series 10 "Journals." • It documents his ongoing research on kuru, the fatal spongiform brain disease among the Fore and Kukukuku peoples, which earned Gajdusek the 1976 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. This Journal is in excellent condition, it has no wear, damage or blemishes and it has been dedicated to Joshua Lederberg by Dr Gajdusek with a handwritten inscription - see photos.…