TY  - BOOK
AU  - Prusiner,Stanley B.
TI  - Madness and memory: the discovery of prions--a new biological principle of disease 
SN  - 9780300191141 (cloth : alk. paper)
U1  - 610.92  B 23
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - New Haven
PB  - Yale University Press
KW  - Prusiner, Stanley B.,
KW  - Physicians
KW  - Autobiography
KW  - History, 20th Century
KW  - History, 21st Century
KW  - Prions
KW  - history
N1  - 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
ER  -