Rabid : a cultural history of the world's most diabolical virus / Bill Wasik and Monica Murphy.

  • Wasik, Bill.
Date:
2012
  • Books

About this work

Description

Charts the history, science, and cultural mythology of rabies, documenting how before its vaccine the disease caused fatal brain infections and sparked the creations of monsters, including werewolves, vampires and zombies.

Publication/Creation

New York : Viking, 2012.

Physical description

x, 275 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Contributors

Notes

Includes index.

Contents

Looking the devil in the eye -- In the beginning -- The middle rages -- A virus with teeth? -- Canicide -- King Louis -- The zoonotic century -- The survivors -- Island of the mad dogs -- The devil, leashed.

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Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    FSY /WAS
    		Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 9780670023738
  • 0670023736