It has been a difficult, sometimes painful, story to tell in its entirety, but I have done my best to be accurate both in facts and in dates, for I feel that l owe the truth to the many who have become valued acquaintances, and sometimes friends. All these have constantly requested more news of my "Green Dwelling" and my discovery of a fatal neurological disease previously unknown to Western medicine. This book is for them, in lieu of letters that I ought to have written and did not. It is also my concern to produce ...
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It has been a difficult, sometimes painful, story to tell in its entirety, but I have done my best to be accurate both in facts and in dates, for I feel that l owe the truth to the many who have become valued acquaintances, and sometimes friends. All these have constantly requested more news of my "Green Dwelling" and my discovery of a fatal neurological disease previously unknown to Western medicine. This book is for them, in lieu of letters that I ought to have written and did not. It is also my concern to produce innocent amusement, unrestricted by canon or precedent, for those who require some relaxation from the fatigue generated by so many parasitic forms of life in this less than perfect world. My peers, the medical scientists, who read this will realize that this book is neither a scientific treatise, nor a balance-sheet of all the achievements and failures of medical science, but a presentation of the major implications of the factors that continually determine our medical ethics - including some of the less prizeworthy drawbacks.
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As New/As New. 089603111x 315pp including index Photographs Map endpapers Author was a the German physician who participated in the discovery of Kuru-a mysterious and devastating brain disease suffered by a small tribe of aborigines inPapua New Guinea-known as "laughing death""
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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. Size: 8vo 8"-9" tall; Foreword by D. Carleton Gajdusek. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf-and edge-wear. Forest green cloth with date of publication neatly added to title page. Illustrated endpapers (map) front and rear. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear. Black-and-white photographs galore. From the author, "It has been a difficult, sometimes painful, story to tell in its entirety, but I have done my best to be accurate both in facts and in dates, for I feel that l owe the truth to the many who have become valued acquaintances, and sometimes friends. All these have constantly requested more news of my 'Green Dwelling' and my discovery of a fatal neurological disease previously unknown to Western medicine. This book is for them, in lieu of letters that I ought to have written and did not. It is also my concern to produce innocent amusement, unrestricted by canon or precedent, for those who require some relaxation from the fatigue generated by so many parasitic forms of life in this less than perfect world. My peers, the medical scientists, who read this will realize that this book is neither a scientific treatise, nor a balance-sheet of all the achievements and failures of medical science, but a presentation of the major implications of the factors that continually determine our medical ethics-including some of the less prizeworthy drawbacks." x + 315 pp. Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.
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Very good in very good(+) jacket. Lightly illustrated with b/w photos. 315 pages. 8vo, green cloth, d.w. Clifton: Humana Press, (1990). A very good copy--light discolorations to both front and rear cloth, foxing to outer edges, review copy bookplate to endpaper verso; in a very good(+) wrapper, lightly scuffed.
