The Family That Couldn't Sleep (häftad)
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Format
Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
336
Utgivningsdatum
2008-05-01
Upplaga
Main
Förlag
Granta Books
Dimensioner
196 x 129 x 26 mm
Vikt
320 g
ISBN
9781846270901

The Family That Couldn't Sleep

Unravelling A Venetian Medical Mystery

av D T Max
Häftad,  Engelska, 2008-05-01

Slutsåld

The first symptoms begin after just a few sleepless nights, with shaking, sweating and overwhelming anxiety. They end only after months of agonising open-eyed deterioration when the victim finally falls into a coma-like state of exhaustion and then dies. Fatal Familial Insomnia is a rare, inherited disease that has afflicted one noble Venetian family for centuries, striking at random and passing from generation to generation like a deadly dynastic curse. The cause? A rogue protein called a prion, which is impossible to destroy and is also responsible for Mad Cow Disease and scrapie in sheep. In this groundbreaking work of scientific detection, D. T. Max pins down this most mutable and maddening of enemies and tells a story that is at once enlightening and spell-binding.

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'A devastating look at the politics of scientific research and a withering condemnation of British farming methods, this is one of the books of the year.' Scotland on Sunday 'Brilliantly disturbing' Arena 'What begins as gothic horror smoothly mutates into a compelling medical detective story as Max charts the struggles of competing scientists - an engaging and important debut.' Sunday Telegraph

Övrig information

D. T. Max is a journalist and essayist who writes regularly for the New Yorker, the New York Times Book Review, and the LA Times. www.dtmax.com

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