Edited by John Collinge and Mark S. Palmer. 205 pp., illustrated. New York, Oxford University Press, 1997. $57.50. ISBN 0-19-854789-7.
Not so long ago, even neurologists struggled with the pronunciationof Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease, one of the transmissiblespongiform encephalopathies or prion diseases. Now, with theemergence of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or "mad cow disease,"and the concern that its transmission to humans causes a "newvariant" of Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease, prion diseasesare front-page news. The increased attention paid to them hasadvanced the field and led to a number of books on the subject.Prion Diseases, edited by Collinge and Palmer, is one of thebest. The fact that eight of the nine contributors are Britishtestifies to the impact . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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