medical anthropology

Doctors Chris and Alexander Van Tulleken investigate the effectiveness of natural cures, meditation, and other traditional medicine by immersing themselves in some of the most remote cultures on earth.

The author, a neurologist, tells of his journey to Pingelap where he went to observe a community of islanders born with hereditary total colorblindness, and a subsequent visit to Guam where he went to investigate a fatal neurodegenerative disorder that has been plaguing people for over a century.