The Search for a Cause: An Anthropological Perspective on a Neurological Disease in Guam, Western Pacific She has become the Mother

She has become the Mother Tree and the final hope for this beautiful native species to survive

— Kristiana Kahakauwila

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

and powerful imagery

it describes the assembly and delivery of atomic bombs from North Field to Hiroshima and Nagasaki

The Search for a Cause: An Anthropological Perspective on a Neurological Disease in Guam, Western Pacific She has become the MotherIn 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