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Carleton's kids: the Papua New Guinea children of D. Carleton Gajdusek

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Over his lifetime, the medical researcher and Nobel Prize winner Carleton Gajdusek 'adopted' 38 children from Papua New Guinea and Micronesia who came to live at his home in the US and were schooled at Gajdusek's expense. Drawing on interviews with ten of the now adult 'adoptees' living in PNG, other informants, and published and unpublished documentary sources, this paper reflects on the children's experience of family life in Gajdusek's home and their subsequent return to PNG. The discussion...[Show more]

dc.contributor.authorSpark, Ceridwen
dc.date.accessioned2015-12-10T22:12:35Z
dc.identifier.issn0022-3344
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/49729
dc.description.abstractOver his lifetime, the medical researcher and Nobel Prize winner Carleton Gajdusek 'adopted' 38 children from Papua New Guinea and Micronesia who came to live at his home in the US and were schooled at Gajdusek's expense. Drawing on interviews with ten of the now adult 'adoptees' living in PNG, other informants, and published and unpublished documentary sources, this paper reflects on the children's experience of family life in Gajdusek's home and their subsequent return to PNG. The discussion highlights and challenges assumptions implicit in common Western concepts of family.
dc.publisherCarfax Publishing, Taylor & Francis Group
dc.sourceJournal of Pacific History
dc.titleCarleton's kids: the Papua New Guinea children of D. Carleton Gajdusek
dc.typeJournal article
local.description.notesImported from ARIES
local.identifier.citationvolume44
dc.date.issued2009
local.identifier.absfor210304 - Biography
local.identifier.absfor169905 - Studies of Pacific Peoples' Societies
local.identifier.absfor210313 - Pacific History (excl. New Zealand and Maori)
local.identifier.ariespublicationu4015830xPUB191
local.type.statusPublished Version
local.contributor.affiliationSpark, Ceridwen, College of Asia and the Pacific, ANU
local.description.embargo2037-12-31
local.bibliographicCitation.issue1
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage1
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage19
local.identifier.doi10.1080/00223340902900746
local.identifier.absseo950306 - Conserving Pacific Peoples Heritage
local.identifier.absseo950201 - Communication Across Languages and Culture
dc.date.updated2015-12-09T07:53:56Z
local.identifier.scopusID2-s2.0-74049095629
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