Kiheung Kim

The Social Construction of Disease (eBook, PDF)

From Scrapie to Prion

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

A historical exploration of scientific disputes on the causation of so-called 'prion diseases', this fascinating book covers diseases including Scrapie, Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) and Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE).

Firstly tracing the twentieth-century history of disease research and biomedicine, the text then focuses on the relations between scientific practice and wider social transformations, before finally building upon the sociologically informed methodological framework.

Incisive and thought-provoking, The Social Construction of Disease provides a valuable contribution to that well-established tradition of social history of science, which refers primarily to the theoretical works of the sociology of scientific knowledge.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. November 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134237135
• Artikelnr.: 42640587

Autorenporträt

Kiheung Kim

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. Scrapie in Britain
1730-1960: A Brief Overview 3. Genetic Research in Edinburgh
1964-1979 4. Radiobiological Research at Compton
1964-1978 5. How Controversy Ends: Disputes on the Nature of Scrapie
1967-1980 6. American Research Trends: Unconventional Slow Viruses
1957-1980 7. Formulating Prion Hypothesis: Stanley Prusiner's Work
1972-1982 8. Prion Controversy
1982-1997 9. Molecularization of Prion Disease 10. Conclusion