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100 1  Max, D. T.|q(Daniel T.) 
245 14 The family that couldn't sleep :|ba medical mystery
       |h[Hoopla electronic resource] /|cD.T. Max. 
246 3  Family that could not sleep 
250    Unabridged. 
264  1 [United States] :|bTantor Audio,|c2006. 
264  2 |bMade available through hoopla 
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511 1  Read by Grover Gardner. 
520    For two hundred years a noble Venetian family has suffered
       from an inherited disease that strikes their members in 
       middle age, stealing their sleep, eating holes in their 
       brains, and ending their lives in a matter of months. In 
       Papua New Guinea, a primitive tribe is nearly obliterated 
       by a sickness whose chief symptom is uncontrollable 
       laughter. Across Europe, millions of sheep rub their 
       fleeces raw before collapsing. In England, cows attack 
       their owners in the milking parlors, while in the American
       West, thousands of deer starve to death in fields full of 
       grass.What these strange conditions-including fatal 
       familial insomnia, kuru, scrapie, and mad cow disease-
       share is their cause: prions. Prions are ordinary proteins
       that sometimes go wrong, resulting in neurological 
       illnesses that are always fatal. Even more mysterious and 
       frightening, prions are almost impossible to destroy 
       because they are not alive and have no DNA-and the 
       diseases they bring are now spreading around the world.In 
       The Family That Couldn't Sleep, essayist and journalist D.
       T. Max tells the spellbinding story of the prion's hidden 
       past and deadly future. Through exclusive interviews and 
       original archival research, Max explains this story's 
       connection to human greed and ambition-from the Prussian 
       chemist Justus von Liebig, who made cattle meatier by 
       feeding them the flesh of other cows, to New Guinean 
       natives whose custom of eating the brains of the dead 
       nearly wiped them out. The biologists who have 
       investigated these afflictions are just as extraordinary-
       for example, Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, a self-described 
       "pedagogic pedophiliac pediatrician" who cracked kuru and 
       won the Nobel Prize, and another Nobel winner, Stanley 
       Prusiner, a driven, feared self-promoter who identified 
       the key protein that revolutionized prion study.With 
       remarkable precision, grace, and sympathy, Max-who himself
       suffers from an inherited neurological illness-explores 
       maladies that have tormented humanity for centuries and 
       gives reason to hope that someday cures will be found. And
       he eloquently demonstrates that in our relationship to 
       nature and these ailments, we have been our own worst 
       enemy. 
538    Mode of access: World Wide Web. 
650  0 Prion diseases. 
650  0 Fatal familial insomnia. 
650  0 Prions. 
650  0 Sleep disorders. 
700 1  Gardner, Grover.|4nrt 
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