How the cows turned mad [[electronic resource] ] : unlocking the mysteries of mad cow disease / / Maxime Schwartz ; translated by Edward Schneider ; with a new foreword by Marion Nestle |
Autore | Schwartz Maxime <1940-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2004 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (260 p.) |
Disciplina | 616.8/3 |
Soggetto topico |
Bovine spongiform encephalopathy
Prion diseases in animals - History |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-282-35762-X
9786612357626 0-520-93151-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD TO THE PAPERBACK EDITION -- PROLOGUE -- 1: THE SHEEP ARE STRANGELY DIZZY -- 2: MOLECULES AND MICROBES -- 3: MAO 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 I N 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 GROW-AND TO DIE -- 20: 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 CONllUERED "THE DISEASE"? -- 27: 2001 -- EPILOGUE -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- CHRONOLOGY -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INDEX |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910454579703321 |
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How the cows turned mad [[electronic resource] ] : unlocking the mysteries of mad cow disease / / Maxime Schwartz ; translated by Edward Schneider ; with a new foreword by Marion Nestle |
Autore | Schwartz Maxime <1940-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2004 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (260 p.) |
Disciplina | 616.8/3 |
Soggetto topico |
Bovine spongiform encephalopathy
Prion diseases in animals - History |
Soggetto non controllato |
agriculture
beef biology brain infection cannibalism carnism carnivore cattle cows disease food and culture food studies food genetics health heredity infectious disease kuru life sciences mad cow mammals meat eating meat medical nonfiction medical science medicine molecular biology neuroscience nonfiction papua new guinea pasteur prion disease prion hypothesis science scrapie sheep transmissible spongiform encephalopathy tse zoology |
ISBN |
1-282-35762-X
9786612357626 0-520-93151-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD TO THE PAPERBACK EDITION -- PROLOGUE -- 1: THE SHEEP ARE STRANGELY DIZZY -- 2: MOLECULES AND MICROBES -- 3: MAO 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 I N 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 GROW-AND TO DIE -- 20: 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 CONllUERED "THE DISEASE"? -- 27: 2001 -- EPILOGUE -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- CHRONOLOGY -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INDEX |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910777956003321 |
Schwartz Maxime <1940->
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2004 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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How the cows turned mad : unlocking the mysteries of mad cow disease / / Maxime Schwartz ; translated by Edward Schneider ; with a new foreword by Marion Nestle |
Autore | Schwartz Maxime <1940-> |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2004 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (260 p.) |
Disciplina | 616.8/3 |
Soggetto topico |
Bovine spongiform encephalopathy
Prion diseases in animals - History |
Soggetto non controllato |
agriculture
beef biology brain infection cannibalism carnism carnivore cattle cows disease food and culture food studies food genetics health heredity infectious disease kuru life sciences mad cow mammals meat eating meat medical nonfiction medical science medicine molecular biology neuroscience nonfiction papua new guinea pasteur prion disease prion hypothesis science scrapie sheep transmissible spongiform encephalopathy tse zoology |
ISBN |
1-282-35762-X
9786612357626 0-520-93151-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD TO THE PAPERBACK EDITION -- PROLOGUE -- 1: THE SHEEP ARE STRANGELY DIZZY -- 2: MOLECULES AND MICROBES -- 3: MAO 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 I N 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 GROW-AND TO DIE -- 20: 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 CONllUERED "THE DISEASE"? -- 27: 2001 -- EPILOGUE -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- CHRONOLOGY -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INDEX |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910809278403321 |
Schwartz Maxime <1940->
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2004 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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