In this, the first volume of the 41st year of Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, we honor Shirley Lindenbaum in each of our volume’s numbers. Professor Lindenbaum is best known for her work on Kuru sorcery (Lindenbaum 1975, 1979, 2013). This work, however, developed into work on a new disease entity, the prion, which caused Kuru. Her ethnographic work provided Gadjusek with clues leading to the identification of the prion causative agent. Her work expanded to include related prion disease and its understanding in the UK and how such outbreaks were handled in policy and practice (medical and political) (2001, 2004, 2015). Her work also lead her to consider Biomedicine itself (Lindenbaum and Lock 1993). She has also done research on cholera in East Pakistan and AIDS in NewYork City (Lindenbaum and Herdt 1992).
We are pleased to honor Professor Lindenbaum who is currently Professor Emerita of the Graduate Center, City University of New York. As is our usual procedure, Dr. Lindenbaum will be honored with an overview of her academic career and will include a full bibliography of her work to appear in our December issue.
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Lindenbaum, Shirley 1975 Sorcery and danger. Oceania 46(1): 68–75.
Lindenbaum, Shirley 1979 Kuru Sorcery: Disease and Danger in the New Guinea Highlands. Palo Alto, CA: Mayfield Publishing Company.
Lindenbaum, Shirley and Gilbert Herdt, Editors 1992 A Time of AIDS. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Lindenbaum, Shirley and Margaret Lock, Editors 1993 Knowledge, Power, and Practice. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
Lindenbaum, Shirley 2001 Kuru, prions, and human Affairs. Annual Review of Anthropology 30: 363–85.
Lindenbaum, Shirley 2004 Thinking about Cannibalism. Annual Review of Anthropology 32: 475–98.
Lindenbaum, Shirley 2013 Kuru sorcery: Disease and danger in the New Guinea highlands (Revised ed.). Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers.
Lindenbaum, Shirley 2015 An annotated history of Kuru. Medicine Anthropology Theory 2(1): 95–126.
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Gaines, A.D. Editorial: CMP Honors for Lindenbaum in 2017. Cult Med Psychiatry 41, 1–2 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11013-017-9525-z
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