Abstract
The following recollections are taken from a series of 14 extended interviews conducted with Richard W. (Dick) Hornabrook between February 1995 and February 1998, as part of a larger ethnographic study of the kuru investigation (see Beasley [2004][1], [2006 a ][2],[ b ][3]). In late 1962, Dick
Highlights
Ketabi Village, c/o Papua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research, PO Box 60, Goroka, EHP 441, Papua New Guinea
‘My adopted daughter and my second wife died of kuru’
I assisted by explaining to the village people why we were there in their village, how we wanted to examine the sick kuru patients and what help we tried to give them
Summary
Ketabi Village, c/o Papua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research, PO Box 60, Goroka, EHP 441, Papua New Guinea I was in my thirties and had a son by the name of Anua when Dr Carleton Gajdusek came into the Purosa Valley to do research on kuru. Carleton picked Anua from among the boys to work with him.
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