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In March 1996, the British Secretary of State for Health announced that 'Mad Cow Disease' (BSE) had transmitted to humans. One striking aspect of this new episode of the BSE crisis was the recurrent appearance of 'prions', thought to be the infectious agents of this disease. The history of prions displays several interesting characteristics. Prions are enigmatic agents usually described as 'infectious proteins', whose pathogenecity is not yet fully understood. If the prion hypothesis, which holds that BSE and similar diseases are caused by such agents, is now widely accepted by the scientific community, many researchers are still disputing it. In the 1980s, Stanley Pruisner, the proponent of the prion hypothesis, was regarded as an heretic. In 1997, however, he won the Nobel Prize for medicine for his discovery of prions. Ths book sheds light on such paradoxical features and is the first to look at the prion case from an historical and social perspective
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monografia Rebiun37403068 https://catalogo.rebiun.org/rebiun/record/Rebiun37403068 m o d cr cn||||||||| 090305s2004 enka ob 001 0 eng d 2004043624 72437466 276797590 646779560 1047637320 1058330794 1116161618 1200116201 1412772917 1452406819 9780230524392 0230524397 9781403932235 1403932239 1403932239 Cloth) 1280565551 9781280565557 9786610565559 6610565554 10.1057/9780230524392 doi AU@ 000058380165 DEBSZ 430358695 DEBSZ 456423087 NZ1 15575133 279393 Palgrave Macmillan http://www.palgraveconnect.com UKPGM eng pn UKPGM IDEBK OCLCQ N$T YDXCP CAI E7B OCLCQ OCLCF OCLCO DEBSZ OCLCQ EBLCP OCLCQ UAB OCLCO OTZ OCLCQ OCLCO OCLCQ VT2 LEAUB FIE OCLCQ OCLCO OCLCQ CUS OCLCA UKAHL OCLCO OCL OCLCQ OCLCO S2H EZ9 INARC OCLCL e-uk--- MED 076000 bisacsh MED 030000 bisacsh MED 078000 bisacsh HBT. bicssc HIS. eflch 614.5/98 22 Infectious processes knowledge, discourse, and the politics of prions edited by Eve Seguin Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire New York Palgrave Macmillan 2004 Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire New York Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire New York Palgrave Macmillan 1 online resource (xiii, 191 pages) illustrations 1 online resource (xiii, 191 pages) Text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Science, technology, and medicine in modern history Includes bibliographical references and index Introduction: Prions? / E. Seguin -- PART I: KNOWLEDGE. The Early History of the Protein-Only Hypothesis. Scientific Change and Multidisciplinary Research / M.J. Poulsen & H. Andersen ; Styles of Scientific Practice and the Prion Controversy / K. Kim ; Paradigm Change? Explaining the Nature of the TSE Agent in Germany / K. Dressel -- PART II: DISCOURSE. Visualizing Prions, Graphic Representations and the Biography of Prions / J. Segal & E. Francoeur -- PART III: POLITICS. Prion Research and the Public Sphere in France / B. Chamak ; The UK BSE Crisis and the Prion Discursive Chain in Scientific Literature / E. Seguin -- Conclusion: The Prion Case / E. Seguin In March 1996, the British Secretary of State for Health announced that 'Mad Cow Disease' (BSE) had transmitted to humans. One striking aspect of this new episode of the BSE crisis was the recurrent appearance of 'prions', thought to be the infectious agents of this disease. The history of prions displays several interesting characteristics. Prions are enigmatic agents usually described as 'infectious proteins', whose pathogenecity is not yet fully understood. If the prion hypothesis, which holds that BSE and similar diseases are caused by such agents, is now widely accepted by the scientific community, many researchers are still disputing it. In the 1980s, Stanley Pruisner, the proponent of the prion hypothesis, was regarded as an heretic. In 1997, however, he won the Nobel Prize for medicine for his discovery of prions. Ths book sheds light on such paradoxical features and is the first to look at the prion case from an historical and social perspective English Prion diseases- History Prions- History Social ecology Prions Prion Diseases Research- history Social Environment Maladies à prions- Histoire Prions (Virologie)- Histoire Écologie sociale human ecology. MEDICAL- Preventive Medicine. MEDICAL- Forensic Medicine. MEDICAL- Public Health. Social ecology. Prion diseases. Prions. Prionen. Onderzoek. History: specific events & topics. History. History. Seguin, Eve 1963-) editor. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCjHWXRXwKfHBFG9hRMtYRq Print version Infectious processes. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004 1403932239 9781403932235 (DLC) 2004043624 (OCoLC)54415806 Science, technology, and medicine in modern history