The Family That Couldn't Sleep by D.T. Max
A Medical Mystery
A nonfiction medical mystery tracing prion diseases through the saga of a multigenerational Italian family afflicted by fatal familial insomnia. It weaves intimate case histories with the global stories of kuru, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, and mad cow, charting the contentious rise of the prion theory and showing how misfolded proteins challenge assumptions about contagion, heredity, and sleep.
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- Published
- 2006
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- American
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- 288–320
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- English
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