DANIEL CARLETON GAJDUSEK
Gajdusek's reprinted article Physiological and Psychological Characteristics of Stone Age Man, signed "with my compliments". Part of this article deals with the Papua New Guinea disease of kuru; Gajdusek shared a Nobel Prize for his work with kuru.
Inscribed article signed: "To: Don Glossinger/with my compliments/D. C. Gajdusek", 20 pages including covers, 8½x11, bound with staples. Titled: Physiological and Psychological Characteristics of Stone Age Man. Written by Gajdusek. Reprinted from Engineering and Science, No. 6, Vol. 33, April 1970, pages 26 to 62 by the U. S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare for an undated Symposium on Biological Bases of Human Behavior. Illustrated with b/w photos. Part of this article deals with a neurological disease among the Fore people of Papua New Guinea called kuru. Gajdusek (1923-2008) shared the 1976 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his discovery that kuru was related to the Fore funeral ritual of eating the brains of the dead. Gajdusek, born in Yonkers, New York City of the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, and Blumberg, born in New York City in 1925, of the Institute for Cancer Research, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1976 for their discoveries concerning new mechanisms for the origin and dissemination of infectious diseases. Lightly creased. Otherwise, fine condition.