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Madness and memory : the discovery of prions--a new biological principle of disease /

Prusiner, Stanley B., 1942-

Madness and memory : the discovery of prions--a new biological principle of disease / Stanley B. Prusiner. - xix, 320 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-282) and index.

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.

9780300191141 (cloth : alk. paper) 0300191146 (cloth : alk. paper)


Prusiner, Stanley B., 1942-


Physicians--Autobiography.
History, 20th Century.
History, 21st Century.
Prions--history.

610.92 B / P971