000			00352nam a2200133Ia 4500
999			_c147682 _d147682
020			_a0520235312
040			_cCUS
082			_a616.83 _bSCH/H
100			_aSchwartz, Maxime
245		0	_aHow the cows turned mad/ _cMaxime Schwartz
260			_aBerkeley: _bUniversity of California Press, _c2003.
300			_axviii, 238 p. ; _c23 cm.
505			_aThe 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.
650			_aPrion diseases
650			_aBovine spongiform encephalopathy
650			_aAnimals--Diseases
650			_aCreutzfeldt-Jakob disease
942			_cWB16