272 Pages
17 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
272 Pages
17 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
272 Pages
17 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
Also available as eBook on:
A historical exploration of scientific disputes on the causation of so-called ‘prion diseases’, this fascinating book covers diseases including Scrapie, Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) and Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE).
Firstly tracing the twentieth-century history of disease research and biomedicine, the text then focuses on the relations between scientific practice and wider social... Read more
1. Introduction 2. Scrapie in Britain, 1730-1960: A Brief Overview 3. Genetic Research in Edinburgh, 1964-1979 4. Radiobiological Research at Compton, 1964-1978 5. How Controversy Ends: Disputes on the Nature of Scrapie, 1967-1980 6. American Research Trends: Unconventional Slow Viruses, 1957-1980 7. Formulating Prion Hypothesis: Stanley Prusiner’s Work, 1972-1982 8. Prion Controversy, 1982-1997 9. Molecularization of Prion Disease 10. Conclusion
Biography
Kiheung Kim
