Cargando…
How the Cows Turned Mad : Unlocking the Mysteries of Mad Cow Disease.
Originally published to much acclaim in France, this scientific thriller, updated with a foreword by best-selling author Marion Nestle, tells of the hunt for the cause of an enigmatic class of fatal brain infections, of which mad cow disease is the latest incarnation. In gripping, nontechnical prose...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
|---|---|
| Autor principal: | |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Francés |
| Publicado: |
Berkeley :
University of California Press,
2004.
|
| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; title; copyright; contents; foreword to the paperback edition; prologue; 1: the sheep are strangely dizzy; 2: molecules and microbes; 3: mad dogs and earthworms; 4: scrapie under the microscope; 5: creutzfelot, jakob, and others; 6: scrapie is inoculable; 7: and goats, and mice; 8: scrapie is contagious; 9: kuru and the fore people of papua new guinea; 10: the wall comes down; 11: from pearl necklace to double helix; 12: the phantom virus; 13: a tragedy in the making; 14: one case per million; 15: prions; 16: april 1985; 17: the "kiss of death"; 18: the return of the spontaneists.
- 19: to growand to die20: lessons learned; 21: have the cows gone mad?; 22: from cows to humans; 23: from cows to sheep? from humans to humans?; 24: the secret in the closet; 25: unmasking "the disease"; 26: have we conquered "the disease"?; 27: 2001; epilogue; notes; bibliography; chronology; acknowledgments; index.