D Carleton Gajdusek (112 results)

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Stapled Binding. Condition: Near Fine. Former Edward G. Miner Library, School of Medicine and Dentistry, The University of Rochester copy (bookplate only). 1971 Stapled Binding. 48 pp. Stapled printed wrappers. A collection of notes, letters, and data from a five-week expedition to the Sahara desert and the Kufra oasis in Libya, during which researchers studied patterns of disease. Gajdusek shared the Nobel Prize with B.S. Blumberg in 1976 for his work on infectious diseases. (Garrison-Morton).…

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Pamphlet. Condition: Use - Good. Reprinted by U.S. Department of Health, Education & Welfare, National Institute of Health. (16) pages. Photos of natives of Papua New Guinea. 11 x 8.5", stapled. Cannibalism, headhunting, kuru, puberty, aging, deformation, mutilation, scarification, pain, penile display, mock combat. Gajdusek won Nobel for work on kuru. Corner crease, G.…

Paperback. Offprint: pp. 26-33, 56-62, illustrated with eleven b&w photos (reproduced clearly, most however rather small), and a lengthy kuru transmission chart. Staplebound pamphlet, 11x8.5 inch printed wraps, cover has a few smudges and a bad lower-corner crease affecting covers and all text. An otherwise clean sound copy, no markings. Symposium on Biological Bases of Human Behavior. Find discussion of "head-hunting" (not kuru per se), stunted growth, late puberty, early aging, short stature, sodium deprivation, deformation, head-binding of infants, mutilation, pain, penile display, echolalia, creativity.…

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 140p. Red buckram. 23cm. No Jacket. Undated reprint by the U.S. Dept. of Health, Education and Welfare, National Institutes of Health of the 1953 edition.

Spiral_bound. 128p., find a few small sketches (part of journal entries), text reproduced from a keyboard-set ms. DISBOUND, unfortunately; left margin is perforated for a comb-style spine but the comb is absent and the printed cover sheet has its perforations torn away. As is, the text is complete and a copyshop may be able to insert a fresh spine, fix the single loose (upper cover) leaf. FYI, we jury-rigged rubberband and removeable-tape fasteners which will please no-one but indeed can be removed without damage. Study of Child Growth and Development and Disease Patterns in Primitive Cultures. A further FYI as to contents: a "reprint" was available with a 1967 dating, this at 145p. therefore actually an expansion. We believe that the extra pagination consists simply of additional letters tacked onto the end of the "journal".…

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Near fine. Bound in modern buckram cloth. Gilt lettering. Hardcover. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. Study of Child Growth and Development and Disease Patterns in Primitive Cultures. From the library Dr. Owen Hannaway. Hannaway was director of the Center for the History and Philosophy of Science at Johns Hopkins University. He authored numerous books and served as an editor of academic magazines in the history of science. Partial list of publications: Chemists and the Word: The Didactic Origins of Chemistry (1975); Observation, Experiment, and Hypothesis in Modern Physical Science (1985); The Evolution of Technology (1989); Science and the Practice of Medicine in the Nineteenth Century (1994); and The Foundations of Modern Science in the Middle Ages: Their Religious, Institutional and Intellectual Contexts (1996).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. VG+. Minimal wear. Interior is clean. No writing or markings of any kind. Ships wrapped in bubble wrap and packed with care in a box.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Paperback. Condition: New. New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 165p. Beige cloth. 27cm. Internal library markings. No jacket.

Paperback. 207p., illustrated with just two tiny hand-sketched line maps, text reproduced from keyboard-set manuscript, copyshop-bound in 11x8.5 inch printed wraps with a black plastic comb spine. The spine is kaput, squashed beyond resetting, its ugly splayed teeth confined by clumsily-applied fiber tape - we should have disbound it and inserted a few strings as a temporary. But we didn't. A little hard to handle as is; clean and unmarked within, and definitely has no loss of leaves. Price reflects the condition. Study of Child Growth and Development and Disease Patterns in Primitive Cultures. Author relaxes with European classics; one time it was with Faulkner's As I Lay Dying. This expedition he has just finished Candide is now (evenings only) enjoying Proust's Within a Budding Grove.…

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAPERBACK. 1st edition. 140pp, octavo. stamp to front, spine fade, binding lightly weak at pg.22 yet solid, clean throughout, Good +.

soft cover. Condition: very good. first edition. In-8° broché, paginé de 327 à 335.

Paperback. 91p., text reproduced from a keyboard-set ms, staple-bound in 11x8.5 inch copyshop production under a plain printed blue cover sheet. Mild external edgewear, we see that item was disbound then re-stapled, several leaves bear small stains (from old packing material which we blew away), a handleable useful copy. Study of Child Growth and Development and Disease Patterns in Primitive Cultures.…

Pamphlet. 14p., a single staplebound fascicle of standard size, 11x8.5 inch inches, text reproduced from a keyboard-set ms on alkaline paperstock. Good copy, we see nothing wrong with it, let's say very good. Uncredited, but possibly the actual publisher: Study of Child Growth and Development and Disease Patterns in Primitive Cultures. Gajdusek is a guy who can walk into the most remote of villiages, feel comfortable, grasp local language clearly enough to document intimate diseases, and read himself to sleep over Faulkner's "As I Lay Dying." Which he loved. In this address to coevals he quotes William Wordsworth extensively, and reminds his fellow scholars that since the cogitations of Leonardo da Vinci no progress has been made in the codification of --at this point he's lost us.…

Pamphlet. 9p., a single staplebound fascicle of standard size, 11x8.5 inch inches, text reproduced from a keyboard-set ms on alkaline paperstock. Good copy, a little edgeworn but clean, unmarked and sound. A "filmer" himself, most often in remote Pacific Island fastnesses, Gajdusek knows pitfalls he's encountered with shooting then preserving footage. Classic early footage of New Guinea circa 1920s (Matthew Stirling) was "deposited with the Smithsonian" which lost it, with only outtakes preserved, which required lengthy sessions sequencing and making sense of. Uncredited, but most likely printed by the Study of Child Growth and Development and Disease Patterns in Primitive Cultures.…

Paperback. 114 plus [10]p. index, a line map of the atoll the sole illustration. Text reproduced from keyboard-set ms. Softbound in 11x8.5 inch plain printed wraps. Faint edgewear, slight general toning with a slightly faded spine panel, very good copy: sound, clean and unmarked. Study of Child Growth and Development and Disease Patterns in Primitive Cultures. Half the text is made up of personal letters that are actually technical, as his colleagues and family and friends do what he does or are interested. Astonishingly warm man.…

soft cover. Condition: fine. first edition. Reprinted from the Amerian journal of tropical medicine and hygiene, vol. 19, no. 1, January 1970. Description: pages 127-175 : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Original publisher's sewn paperback, pictorial frontcover, large 8vo: 192pp., 21 contributions, figs., graphs., references.

Paperback. Reprint: 123p., plus substantial geographical and name indices, one illustration (line map of one island), softbound in 11x8.5 inch plain printed blue wraps (spine and cover titling). Sound, clean and unmarked, a very good copy. Child Growth and Development and Disease Patterns in Primitive Cultures.…

Paperback. Reprint, 207p., text reproduced from keyboard-set ms, softbound in 11x8.5 inch plain printed staplebound wraps. Mild edgewear, one staple was removed and another inserted (slight rust residue), faint tonings, a couple of tiny corner-tip creases, a good copy: sound, clean and unmarked. Study of Child Growth and Development and Disease Patterns in Primitive Cultures. Mention of adolescent and adult homosexuality and similar behavior that is not gay may be found on at least one page, p.173. …