{"product_id":"how-the-cows-turned-mad-unlocking-the-mysteries-of-mad-cow-disease-9780520243378","title":"How The Cows Turned Mad: Unlocking the Mysteries of Mad Cow Disease","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Maxime Schwartz\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: California UP\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: California\u003cbr\u003e • Subject: Medical, Nursing and Health Sciences\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: History\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the Back Cover\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Schwartz's fully engrossing, two-century-plus detective story provides a thoroughgoing history of the discovery of 'mad cow' and related diseases that also illuminates the ways in which science works. I could not put this book down.\"--Jon Beckwith, author of \u003ci\u003eMaking Genes, Making Waves: A Social Activist in Science\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Rarely have I read a book as scary, interesting, informative and enjoyable.\"--John E. Talbott, University of California, Santa Barbara\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePraise for the French edition: \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Maxime Schwartz's book . . . constitutes an ode to science, to its rigor, to its perseverance, but also, as we shall see, to its modesty. \u003ci\u003eHow the Cows Turned Mad \u003c\/i\u003eis a gothic historical novel: its author, molecular biologist and former director of the Pasteur Institute, leads us along a thread that unravels over almost three centuries, from Louis XV to Tony Blair.\"--\u003ci\u003eLe Figaro\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"But above all, and this is indeed remarkable in a work which treats such a scientific subject, \u003ci\u003eHow the Cows Turned Mad\u003c\/i\u003e is not a scientific treatise for scientists, but rather a book. And as such, it reads easily and pleasurably.\"--\u003ci\u003eLe Généraliste\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"How the Cows Turned Mad: that's the title of this book, almost a detective novel, just published by the molecular biologist Maxime Schwartz. An indispensable tool that allows us to sort through the truths and untruths and finally assess the situation.\"--\u003ci\u003ePanorama du médecin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"California UP","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45091422732439,"sku":"9780520243378","price":1380.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780520243378.webp?v=1769204405","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/how-the-cows-turned-mad-unlocking-the-mysteries-of-mad-cow-disease-9780520243378","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}