The family that couldn't sleep a medical mystery
Explores prions, enigmatic brain proteins, and their influence on human life, examining the case of an Italian family victimized for two centuries by a fatal familial insomnia, and the links between prions and various brain maladies.
| Main Author: | Max, D. T. |
|---|---|
| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York :
Random House Trade Paperbacks,
2007.
|
| Edition: | Random House Trade Paperback ed. |
| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- Alone in the night: Doctors' dilemma, Venice, 1765; Merino mania, England, 1772; Pietro, the Veneto, 1943
- Pushing back the dark: Strong magic, Papua New Guinea, 1947; Docta America, Papua New Guinea, 1957; Monkey business, Bethesda, Maryland, 1965; Boh!, the Veneto, 1973; Wonderful problem for a chemist, San Francisco, late 1970s to early 1980s; Convergence, the Veneto, 1983
- Nature pushes back: Apocalypse cow, Britain, 1986; Oinkies, Britain, 1996; World according to prions, United States/Britain, 1970s to present day; Did man eat man?, Worldwide, 8000,000 B.C.E.; Coming to America?, United States, present day
- Awakenings: For the victims of fatal familial insomnia, the Veneto, present day
- Afterword: Note on the author.