The Social Construction of Disease: From Scrapie to Prion

by Kiheung Kim

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138982172
• ISBN13: 9781138982178
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"