The Search for a Cause: An Anthropological Perspective on a Neurological Disease in Guam, Western Pacific

by Verena Keck

In this anthropological study of a neurodegenerative disease, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis/Parkinsonism-Dementia Complex (ALS/PDC) in Guam, Western Pacific, Verena Keck intertwines three separate perspectives of history, medicine, and anthropology.

The book is an important contribution to the long overdue decolonizing of biomedical research and argues that neurological diseases can be better understood if they are seen, too, as social and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1935198017
• ISBN13: 9781935198017
• Release Date: July 2012
• Publisher: Richard Flores Taitano Micronesian Area Resea
• Length: 268 Pages