Prusiner, Stanley B.,  1942- <br/><br/>
Madness and memory :  the discovery of prions--a new biological principle of disease / 
Stanley B. Prusiner. 
 - xix, 320 pages :  illustrations ;  25 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-282) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780300191141 (cloth : alk. paper) 0300191146 (cloth : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Prusiner, Stanley B., 1942- 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Physicians--Autobiography.<br/>History, 20th Century.<br/>History, 21st Century.<br/>Prions--history.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>610.92    B  / P971