Rabid : a cultural history of the world's most diabolical virus
(2012)
By:
Wasik, Bill
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
614.5/WASIK,B
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Viking, 2012
DESCRIPTION
x, 275 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780670023738, 0670023736
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Includes index
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
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