1. On the scientific field as the locus of a competitive struggle with the goal of protecting competences, see Pierre Bourdieu, “The Specificity of the Scientific Field and the Social Conditions for the Progress of Reason,” Social Science Information 14 (1985): 19–47.
2. Neuropathology was, after all, the first medical neuroscientific discipline, and the neurosciences have continued to expand through neuropathological means; see Franz Seitelberger, “The Role of Neuropathology in the neurosciences,” in F. Clifford Rose and W. F. Bynum, eds, Historical Aspects of the Neurosciences, (New York: Raven Press, 1982), 265–272.
3. R. M. Berndt to R. F. R. Scragg (director, Public Health Dept), 9 July 1957, in Judith Farquhar and D. Carleton Gajdusek, eds., Kuru: Early Letters and Fieldnotes from the Collection of D. Carleton Gajdusek (New York: Raven Press 1981), 89–90.
4. D. C. G. to J. E. Smadel (associate director, NIH), 15 March 1957, in D. Carleton Gajdusek, ed., Correspondence on the Discovery and Original Investigations of Kuru: Smadel-Gajdusek Correspondence, 1955–58 (Bethesda, MD: National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke 1976), 50.
5. R. M. Berndt, “A Cargo Movement in the Eastern Central Highlands of New Guinea,” Oceania 23, no. 1 (1952):48.