How the cows turned mad/
Maxime Schwartz
- Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003.
- xviii, 238 p. ; 23 cm.
The Sheep are strangely dizzy -- Molecules and microbes -- Mad dogs and earthworms -- Scrapie under the microscope -- Creutzfeldt, Jakob, and others -- Scrapie is inoculable -- And goats, and mice -- Scrapie is contagious -- Kuru and the Fore people of Papua New Guinea -- The Wall comes down -- From pearl necklace to double helix -- The Phantom virus -- A Tragedy in the making -- One case per million -- Prions -- April 1985 -- The "Kiss of death" -- The Return of the spontaneists -- To grow-and to die -- Lessons learned -- Have the cows gone mad? -- From cows to humans -- From cows to sheep? From humans to humans? -- The Secret closet -- Unmasking "The disease" -- Have we conquered "The disease"? -- 2001 -- Epilogue.