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By Robert Klitzman. 333 pp. New York, Plenum, 1998. $27.95. ISBN 0-306-45792-X.

This book is ostensibly a personal account of the "grunt work" of field research — the experience behind the relatively sterile papers that appear in our medical, public health, and anthropologic journals. Who has not dreamed of venturing into the last pristine wildernesses to live among Stone Age people, whether in the name of science, lofty ideals, or individual challenge? The author spent a year among the Fore people in the remote Highlands of Papua New Guinea, investigating how kuru, a rare infectious prion (protein) disease, is transmitted and how long it incubates before slowly destroying its host.

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