Download or read book The Collectors of Lost Souls written by Warwick Anderson and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2019-08-27 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This riveting account of medical detective work traces the story of kuru, a fatal brain disease, and the pioneering scientists who spent decades searching for its cause and cure. Winner, William H. Welch Medal, American Association for the History of Medicine Winner, Ludwik Fleck Prize, Society for Social Studies of Science Winner, General History Award, New South Wales Premier's History Awards When whites first encountered the Fore people in the isolated highlands of colonial New Guinea during the 1940s and 1950s, they found a people in the grip of a bizarre epidemic. Women and children succumbed to muscle weakness, uncontrollable tremors, and lack of coordination, until death inevitably supervened. Facing extinction, the Fore attributed their unique and terrifying affliction to a particularly malign form of sorcery. In The Collectors of Lost Souls, Warwick Anderson tells the story of the resilience of the Fore through this devastating plague, their transformation into modern people, and their compelling attraction for a throng of eccentric and adventurous scientists and anthropologists. Battling competing scientists and the colonial authorities, the brilliant and troubled American doctor D. Carleton Gajdusek determined that the cause of the epidemic—kuru—was a new and mysterious agent of infection, which he called a slow virus (now called a prion). Anthropologists and epidemiologists soon realized that the Fore practice of eating their loved ones after death had spread the slow virus. Though the Fore were never convinced, Gajdusek received the Nobel Prize for his discovery. Now revised and updated, the book includes an extensive new afterword that situates its impact within the fields of science and technology studies and the history of science. Additionally, the author now reflects on his long engagement with the scientists and the people afflicted, describing what has happened to them since the end of kuru. This astonishing story links first-contact encounters in New Guinea with laboratory experiments in Bethesda, Maryland; sorcery with science; cannibalism with compassion; and slow viruses with infectious proteins, reshaping our understanding of what it means to do science.
Download or read book Protector of Lost Souls written by Mic Taylor and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2016-09-12 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jami Solnotos life was like any others. That is until the day she met a mysterious man, who she was unable to get out of her head, leaving her with a need to seek him out and discover who he truly was. What she was unaware of was that what she would find out would change her life forever, throwing her in the path of danger, and placing her between good and evil. But sometimes, in life, those are the risks worth taking.
Download or read book Lost Souls and Missing Persons written by Sally Clark and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lost Souls written by Tim Rangnow and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-09 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Ghost Collector written by Allison Mills and published by Annick Press. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ghosts aren’t meant to stick around forever... Shelly and her grandmother catch ghosts. In their hair. Just like all the women in their family, they can see souls who haven’t transitioned yet; it’s their job to help the ghosts along their journey. When Shelly’s mom dies suddenly, Shelly’s relationship to ghosts—and death—changes. Instead of helping spirits move on, Shelly starts hoarding them. But no matter how many ghost cats, dogs, or people she hides in her room, Shelly can’t ignore the one ghost that’s missing. Why hasn’t her mom’s ghost come home yet? Rooted in a Cree worldview and inspired by stories about the author’s great-grandmother’s life, The Ghost Collector delves into questions of grief and loss, and introduces an exciting new voice in tween fiction that will appeal to fans of Kate DiCamillo’s Louisiana’s Way Home and Patrick Ness’s A Monster Calls.
Download or read book Lost Souls written by Lena Herzog and published by de.Mo Design Limited. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 'Wunderkammer', or 'cabinet of curiosities', was an encyclopaedic collection of controversial, yet-to-be-defined objects, including Cyclopes, Siamese twins and other infants with fatal genetic disorders. Herzog visited these Renaissance collections, photographing the mysteries they contain. Although for years they have been preserved as scientific specimens, they are profoundly transformed through Herzog's lens into a mirror reflecting human fears. Also included are images of skeletons and bones of various creatures and other unusual objects on display.
Download or read book Lost Souls written by Anthony Schmitz and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2011-09-14 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “I start my story. Which, if I do say so myself, is a fine story for a Sunday drive. It’s a love story, at least up to the point that it gets tangled up in death and lies.” And so begins Father Hoven’s journey back to St. Jude and back to the memory of a time when he was “right out of the seminary and ready to set the world straight.” The young priest, however, could hardly be prepared for residents of the Minnesota community who harbored in the midst of their devout natures a host of dark secrets and earthy desires. Father Hoven tells of his early days in their company, speaking alternately with the sweetness of youthful ambitions and the ironic wisdom of old age. His is one of the most delightful voices in American fiction today.
Download or read book Cannibalism written by Bill Schutt and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2018-01-30 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Surprising. Impressive. Cannibalism restores my faith in humanity.” —Sy Montgomery, The New York Times Book Review For centuries scientists have written off cannibalism as a bizarre phenomenon with little biological significance. Its presence in nature was dismissed as a desperate response to starvation or other life-threatening circumstances, and few spent time studying it. A taboo subject in our culture, the behavior was portrayed mostly through horror movies or tabloids sensationalizing the crimes of real-life flesh-eaters. But the true nature of cannibalism--the role it plays in evolution as well as human history--is even more intriguing (and more normal) than the misconceptions we’ve come to accept as fact. In Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History,zoologist Bill Schutt sets the record straight, debunking common myths and investigating our new understanding of cannibalism’s role in biology, anthropology, and history in the most fascinating account yet written on this complex topic. Schutt takes readers from Arizona’s Chiricahua Mountains, where he wades through ponds full of tadpoles devouring their siblings, to the Sierra Nevadas, where he joins researchers who are shedding new light on what happened to the Donner Party--the most infamous episode of cannibalism in American history. He even meets with an expert on the preparation and consumption of human placenta (and, yes, it goes well with Chianti). Bringing together the latest cutting-edge science, Schutt answers questions such as why some amphibians consume their mother’s skin; why certain insects bite the heads off their partners after sex; why, up until the end of the twentieth century, Europeans regularly ate human body parts as medical curatives; and how cannibalism might be linked to the extinction of the Neanderthals. He takes us into the future as well, investigating whether, as climate change causes famine, disease, and overcrowding, we may see more outbreaks of cannibalism in many more species--including our own. Cannibalism places a perfectly natural occurrence into a vital new context and invites us to explore why it both enthralls and repels us.
Download or read book An Anthropology of Biomedicine written by Margaret Lock and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2018-01-09 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fully revised and updated second edition of An Anthropology of Biomedicine, authors Lock and Nguyen introduce biomedicine from an anthropological perspective, exploring the entanglement of material bodies with history, environment, culture, and politics. Drawing on historical and ethnographic work, the book critiques the assumption made by the biological sciences of a universal human body that can be uniformly standardized. It focuses on the ways in which the application of biomedical technologies brings about radical changes to societies at large based on socioeconomic inequalities and ethical disputes, and develops and integrates the theory that the human body in health and illness is not an ontological given but a moveable, malleable entity. This second edition includes new chapters on: microbiology and the microbiome; global health; and, the self as a socio-technical system. In addition, all chapters have been comprehensively revised to take account of developments from within this fast-paced field, in the intervening years between publications. References and figures have also been updated throughout. This highly-regarded and award-winning textbook (Winner of the 2010 Prose Award for Archaeology and Anthropology) retains the character and features of the previous edition. Its coverage remains broad, including discussion of: biomedical technologies in practice; anthropologies of medicine; biology and human experiments; infertility and assisted reproduction; genomics, epigenomics, and uncertain futures; and molecularizing racial difference, ensuring it remains the essential text for students of anthropology, medical anthropology as well as public and global health.
Download or read book Point of Lost Souls written by Jane Toombs and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lost Souls written by Candace Meredith and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-27 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lost Souls is an eclectic collection of speculative fiction consisting of short stories, flash fiction, vignettes and poetry. Explore the hidden depths of the psyche in these stories where the paranormal emerges in the lives of the main characters; the dead come to life in Blood & Flesh and a deceased lover invades the life of a woman and his mother in Enter Night. These pieces stem from the darkness and shed the light on the unusual - go to places where mermaids and dragons abound and ghosts linger in disembodied voices.
Download or read book Till Death Do We Part written by Jazmin Hedrick and published by Fulton Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-04-04 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A journey of what happens when a collector of souls becomes connected to the human soul, soul mates, and what true love is. A story that will keep you reading and wanting to believe in fate.
Download or read book Mad World written by Brandon T. Bernard and published by . This book was released on 2021-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These are mad times in Wonderland. Cheshire, a rogue branded Queen Slayer, uses the madness to his advantage. While on the run, he searches for any sign of his mother, and may the gods have mercy on those who stand contrary.Jonathan, a gentleman of the highest caliber, along with March, a legendary swordswoman, live together in solitude to escape the madness. Together, their days are filled with swords, pleasures, and teas, only missing Cheshire. They want nothing more than to remain lost, and will go to any lengths necessary to make sure of it.But their lives and all of Wonderland are thrown into chaos by the unexpected appearance of Mary Anne, a young woman from another world.To keep all they hold dear, Cheshire, Jonathan, and March must descend deeper into the madness, risking everything to do something about this strange woman before her presence brings their worlds crashing down like a house of cards. But it may already be too late.
Download or read book Clockwork Princess written by Cassandra Clare and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-11-11 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When seventeen-year-old orphaned shapechanger Tessa Gray is kidnapped by the villainous Mortmain in his final bid for power, the London Institute rallies to save her, but is beset by danger and betrayal at every turn.
Download or read book Soul Hunters The Collectors of Fear written by Benjamin Mollenhour and published by . This book was released on 2020-01-09 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For thousands of years, since Egyptian Pharaoh Narmer made a wrongful deal with the Gods, evil has persisted in creating fear within the weak. Conquering the weakened and lost souls, the soul hunters strengthen their own life beyond years. In eighteenth-century Georgia, Reginald, a prominent soul hunter, leads a group of runaway children where his true identity is shared with one person, Ulmer. Afterward, Ulmer and Reginald are influential to one child who grows into a future soul hunter - Frederick. As the years go by and as time changes, Frederick, whose life was transformed as a young child, also changes. Working with his mentor, he uses a new way to not only steal souls but also attempt to become the most powerful soul hunter.
Download or read book Lost Souls written by Mel Odom and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lost Souls written by Jonathan Kellerman and published by Arrow. This book was released on 2021-04 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bij het onderzoek naar de doodsoorzaak van een achtien maanden oude baby stuit Clay Edison op een vermissing van een baby 50 jaar geleden.
