The 'Prion' Controversy and the Public's Health
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Richard Rhodes is the author of numerous books and the winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He graduated from Yale University and has received fellowships from the Ford Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Appearing as host and correspondent for documentaries on public televisions Frontline and American Experience series, he has also been a visiting scholar at Harvard and MIT and is an affiliate of the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University. Visit his websiteRichardRhodes.com.
contents
To the Reader
PART ONE: Among the Cannibals
1. i eat you
2. kuru
3. dr. creutzfeldt and dr. jakob
4. across the species barrier
5. the life and death of georgette
6. the cannibal connection
PART TWO: The Strangest Thing in All Biology
7. the disease that wouldn't die
8. high-tech neocannibalism
9. infecting the children
10. a candidate for a modern wonder
PART THREE: God in the Guise of a Virus
11. meat bites back
12. ice-nine
13. it's kuru and nothing but kuru
Afterword: We May Have to Face an Epidemic
Glossary
Acknowledgments
Index