Warwick Anderson, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Published online: September 2011
DOI: 10.1002/9780470015902.a0003600
The American scientist Stanley B. Prusiner received the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of proteins whose pathogenic form is responsible for human ailments such as Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (CJD).
Keywords: Prusiner; prion; slow virus; Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease; kuru; Nobel prize
| Further Reading | |
| book Anderson W (2008) The Collectors of Lost Souls: Turning Kuru Scientists into Whitemen. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. | |
| book Cooke J (1998) Cannibals, Cows, and the CJD Catastrophe. Milsons Point, NSW: Random House Australia. | |
| book Kim K (2007) The Social Construction of Disease, From Scrapie to Prion. London/New York: Routledge. | |
| Prusiner Stanely B (1995) The prion diseases. Scientific American 272: 48–56. | |
| book Rhodes R (1997) Deadly Feasts, Tracking the Secrets of a Terrifying New Plague. New York: Simon and Schuster. | |
| book Ridley R and Baker H (1998) Fatal Protein: The Story of CJD, BSE, and Other Prion Diseases. Oxford: Oxford University Press. | |
| book Seguin E (ed.) (2004) Infectious Processes, Knowledge, Discourse and the Politics of Prions. Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK: Palgrave Macmillan. | |
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