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

Madness and memory : the discovery of prions--a new biological principle of disease / Stanley B. Prusiner.

Author/creator	Prusiner, Stanley B., 1942-
Format	Electronic and Book
Publication Info	New Haven : Yale University Press, [2014]
Description	xix, 320 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Supplemental Content	Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subject(s)	Prusiner, Stanley B., 1942- Physicians--Autobiography. History, 20th Century. History, 21st Century. Prions--history.

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.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-282) and index.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2013041191
ISBN	9780300191141 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN	0300191146 (cloth : alk. paper)

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