The Search for a Cause: An Anthropological Perspective on a Neurological Disease in Guam, Western Pacific and powerful imagery

and powerful imagery

Each short story explores different moments in Vonna’s life when she must balance the expectations of her strict parents with her own desires and expectations for herself

Signs of Being is a collection of poetry

Vonna must decide whom she wants to become in a world that seems to be constantly shifting around her

and more that grow throughout the jungles and backyards of the Mariana Islands

The Search for a Cause: An Anthropological Perspective on a Neurological Disease in Guam, Western Pacific and powerful imageryIn this anthropological study of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Parkinsonism Dementia Complex (ALS PDC) in Guam, Keck intertwines three separate perspectives of history, medicine and anthropology. This work is an important contribution to the decolonizing of biomedical research and argues that neurological diseases can be better understood if they are also seen as social and cultural phenomena. With sound ethnography linked to current controversial