Madness and memory : the discovery of prions--a new biological principle of disease / Stanley B. Prusiner.

  • Prusiner, Stanley B., 1942-
Date:
[2014]
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Publication/Creation

New Haven : Yale University Press, [2014]

Physical description

xix, 320 pages ; 25 cm

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Growing up -- The beginning of an odyssey -- A plethora of theories -- The scrapie race -- Dr. America and the trembling cannibals -- The battle for tenure -- What's in a name? -- Lost in the Pacific fog -- The amyloid story -- Finding the gene -- Jousting with the press -- Deciphering human prion diseases -- What's in a shape? -- Turf battles -- Mad cow and other prion strains -- Stockholm -- The third judgment of Paris -- Epilogue : the quest for therapeutics.

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    History of Medicine
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ISBN

  • 9780300191141
  • 0300191146