Madness and memory :
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)
2013041191
Prusiner, Stanley B., 1942-
Physicians--United States--Biography.
Prions--History.
Prion diseases--History.
Physicians--Autobiography.
History, 20th Century.
History, 21st Century.
Prions--history.
Biography.
History.
R690 / .P78 2014
610.92 B
2014 G-496 WZ 100 WZ 100 / P972m 2014
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)
2013041191
Prusiner, Stanley B., 1942-
Physicians--United States--Biography.
Prions--History.
Prion diseases--History.
Physicians--Autobiography.
History, 20th Century.
History, 21st Century.
Prions--history.
Biography.
History.
R690 / .P78 2014
610.92 B
2014 G-496 WZ 100 WZ 100 / P972m 2014