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Deadly Feasts: Tracking the Secrets of a Terrifying New Plague - Rhodes, Richard
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eBay item number:255588810132
Item specifics
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller Notes
- “Minimal wear. In excellent reading condition.”
- Subject Area
- Public Health
- Binding
- Paperback
- Weight
- 0 lbs
- Product Group
- Book
- Educational Level
- Adult & Further Education
- IsTextBook
- No
- Subject
- Health
- Level
- Advanced, Proficiency
- ISBN
- 9780684844251
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
ISBN-10
0684844257
ISBN-13
9780684844251
eBay Product ID (ePID)
878688
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
272 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Deadly Feasts : Tracking the Secrets of a Terrifying New Plague
Publication Year
1998
Subject
Neurology, Life Sciences / Virology, Infectious Diseases, Diseases
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Science, Medical
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
9.1 Oz
Item Length
8.4 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Reviews
"In the science literature of Armageddon, Deadly Feasts is in a class by itself....Rhodes is able to make hard science come alive."- Peter Collier, Chicago Tribune, Claudia WinklerThe Weekly StandardDeadly Feastsis a breezy, immensely readable account....It is a splendid description of the process by which scientific knowledge is advanced., Oliver Sacks The New Yorker Deadly Feasts is a book to be read and pondered carefully -- and perhaps acted on -- possibly before eating one's next hamburger., "A vivid and engrossing account of a scientific saga worthy of Paul de Kruff's Microbe-Hunters." Beryl Lieff Benderly, San Jose Mercury News, Oliver SacksThe New YorkerDeadly Feastsis a book to be read and pondered carefully -- and perhaps acted on -- possibly before eating one's next hamburger., "An Upton Sinclair-ish look inside the modern meat industry...Rhodes tells this medical detective story beautifully." John Schwartz, The Washington Post, John SchwartzThe Washington PostAn Upton Sinclair-ish look inside the modern meat industry...Rhodes tells this medical detective story beautifully., Peter Collier Chicago Tribune In the science literature of Armageddon, Deadly Feasts is in a class by itself....Rhodes is able to make hard science come alive., "In the science literature of Armageddon, Deadly Feasts is in a class by itself....Rhodes is able to make hard science come alive."e" Peter Collier, Chicago Tribune, Nancy Schapiro St. Louis Post-Dispatch [Rhodes] is a wonderful storyteller, Deadly Feasts is a great mystery story., "[Rhodes] is a wonderful storyteller, Deadly Feasts is a great mystery story."e" Nancy Schapiro, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, "Deadly Feasts is a book to be read and pondered carefully -- and perhaps acted on -- possibly before eating one's next hamburger."- Oliver Sacks, The New Yorker, "Deadly Feasts is a breezy, immensely readable account....It is a splendid description of the process by which scientific knowledge is advanced." Claudia Winkler, The Weekly Standard, "Deadly Feasts is a breezy, immensely readable account....It is a splendid description of the process by which scientific knowledge is advanced."e" Claudia Winkler, The Weekly Standard, "Deadly Feasts is a book to be read and pondered carefully -- and perhaps acted on -- possibly before eating one's next hamburger."e" Oliver Sacks, The New Yorker, "[Rhodes] is a wonderful storyteller, Deadly Feasts is a great mystery story."- Nancy Schapiro, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, John Schwartz The Washington Post An Upton Sinclair-ish look inside the modern meat industry...Rhodes tells this medical detective story beautifully., Beryl Lieff BenderlySan Jose Mercury NewsA vivid and engrossing account of a scientific saga worthy of Paul de Kruff's Microbe-Hunters., "Deadly Feasts is a breezy, immensely readable account....It is a splendid description of the process by which scientific knowledge is advanced."- Claudia Winkler, The Weekly Standard, "A vivid and engrossing account of a scientific saga worthy of Paul de Kruff's Microbe-Hunters."- Beryl Lieff Benderly, San Jose Mercury News, Peter CollierChicago TribuneIn the science literature of Armageddon,Deadly Feastsis in a class by itself....Rhodes is able to make hard science come alive., "In the science literature of Armageddon, Deadly Feasts is in a class by itself....Rhodes is able to make hard science come alive." Peter Collier, Chicago Tribune, Beryl Lieff Benderly San Jose Mercury News A vivid and engrossing account of a scientific saga worthy of Paul de Kruff's Microbe-Hunters., Claudia Winkler The Weekly Standard Deadly Feasts is a breezy, immensely readable account....It is a splendid description of the process by which scientific knowledge is advanced., "An Upton Sinclair-ish look inside the modern meat industry...Rhodes tells this medical detective story beautifully."e" John Schwartz, The Washington Post, "An Upton Sinclair-ish look inside the modern meat industry...Rhodes tells this medical detective story beautifully."- John Schwartz, The Washington Post, "A vivid and engrossing account of a scientific saga worthy of Paul de Kruff's Microbe-Hunters."e" Beryl Lieff Benderly, San Jose Mercury News, "[Rhodes] is a wonderful storyteller, Deadly Feasts is a great mystery story." Nancy Schapiro, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, "Deadly Feasts is a book to be read and pondered carefully -- and perhaps acted on -- possibly before eating one's next hamburger." Oliver Sacks, The New Yorker, Nancy SchapiroSt. Louis Post-Dispatch[Rhodes] is a wonderful storyteller,Deadly Feastsis a great mystery story.
Illustrated
Yes
Table Of Content
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
Synopsis
In this brilliant and gripping medical detective story. Richard Rhodes follows virus hunters on three continents as they track the emergence of a deadly new brain disease that first kills cannibals in New Guinea, then cattle and young people in Britain and France -- and that has already been traced to food animals in the United States. In a new Afterword for the paperback, Rhodes reports the latest U.S. and worldwide developments of a burgeoning global threat., In this brilliant and gripping medical detective story. Richard Rhodes follows virus hunters on three continents as they track the emergence of a deadly new brain disease that first kills cannibals in New Guinea, then cattle and young people in Britain and France--and that has already been traced to food animals in the United States. In a new afterword for the paperback, Rhodes reports the latest US and worldwide developments of a burgeoning global threat.
LC Classification Number
RA644.P93
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