by Bill Wasik, Monica Murphy, Johnny Heller
Rabid describes how furiously I flew through this. I now know more about rabies and it's culture than I ever thought i would. What a horrific virus. This book was both fascinating and terrifying.
Greek myths and fake cures? Not going to lie, I was yawning a bit. But I loved everything starting with Chapter Four. Pasteur's lab dynamics and the little boy (Meister) who ended up defending the Pasteur's Institute from the Nazis just were amazing stories. Riveting.
bookshelves: spring-2014, dog-steals-the-show, e-book, environmental-issues, boo-scary, ipad, lifestyles-deathstyles, medical-eew, newtome-author, nonfiction, ouch, plague-disease, published-2012, tbr-busting-2014, zoology, sciences, bedside Recommended for: GeeVee, Pat, Susanna, and all other dise...
RABID: A CULTURAL HISTORY OF THE WORLD'S MOST DIABOLICAL VIRUSRabies is apparently the most fatal virus known to science. It is a disease that is transmitted to humans from another species (such as dogs and bats), usually by a bite from an infected animal. The rabies virus infects the central nerv...
The issues I have with Rabid have more to do with my expectations than with the book's intentions. It clearly says it's a cultural history on the cover, and it lives up to that - objectively I will say that it strikes me as too digressive.Basically I wanted more medical stories - more Rabies, less R...
I picked this up while I was browsing books at the library. The minute I opened it I was sucked in and ended up spending most of the afternoon at the library reading this book. Even if you're not really into viral pathology I will still say to give this book a try. It reads more like a mixture of ho...
My usual ratio of reading has been one non-fiction title for every ten fiction titles, but 2013 has seen me embark on a real non-fiction kick. In part I blame (or rather thank) this book.Really, the book synopsis covers it perfectly: this is a book that takes you on a journey through the disease’s h...
An interesting cultural history that strays into academic mush too often, and while it clocked in at just under 300 pages, at least 200 of those pages were unnecessary. The introduction and the last three chapters are fascinating stuff, but would have made for a better magazine series of articles as...
Mixed feelings. I wrote a really long and detailed review of this, which somehow disappeared, and now I have no energy to redo the whole thing. I will put one up at a later point. Right now, I am hovering between 2 and 3 stars.
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