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Author:
Prusiner, Stanley B., 1942- author.
Title:
Madness and memory : the discovery of prions--a new biological principle of disease / Stanley B. Prusiner.
Publisher:
Yale University Press,
Copyright Date:
2014
Description:
xix, 320 pages ; 25 cm.
Subject:
Prusiner, Stanley B.,--1942-
Physicians--Biography.
Prions--History.
Prion diseases--History.
Notes:
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.
ISBN:
0300191146 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780300191141 (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN:
2013041191
Locations:
ALPE516 -- Fairfield Public Library (Fairfield)
SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)
GAAX314 -- Northeast Iowa Community College Library - Peosta (Peosta)
PGAX715 -- Northwest Iowa Community College Library - Sheldon (Sheldon)
GDPF771 -- Urbandale Public Library (Urbandale)

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