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Bethesda, Maryland: U. S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, National Institutes of Health, 1991. Revised edition.1954 JOURNAL OF NOBELIST GAJDUSEK'S YEAR IN MIDDLE EAST BEFORE HE DISCOVERED KURU--INSCRIBED TO HARVARD MOLECULAR BIOLOGIST JEFFREY WYMAN.
21x28 cm hardcover, green buckram binding, gilt title to cover and spine, inscribed front free endpaper, "To Jeff Wyman/ in our friendship by proxy through John Edsall/ & in lasting admiration/ D. Carleton Gajdusek/ March 1995." [2], map of Middle East, i-xiv, 141 full-page photographic plates (printed recto only), 483 pp text. Near fine--as new.
FROM NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE: "Gajdusek's multi-disciplinary interests make the collection extremely diverse and appealing to researchers in several disciplines including anthropology, biology, ethnology, geography, linguistics, medicine, primitive arts, and psychology."
DANIEL CARLETON GAJDUSEK (1923 –2008) was an American physician and medical researcher who was the… Read More