Rabid a cultural history of the world's most diabolical virus
Record details
- ISBN: 9781470826451 (electronic audio bk.)
- ISBN: 1470826453 (electronic audio bk.)
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Physical Description:
electronic resource
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1 sound file (8 hr., 8 min., 2 sec.) : digital. - Publisher: [Ashland, Or.] : Blackstone Audio, Inc., 2012.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Unabridged. Duration: 08:08:02. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Johnny Heller. |
System Details Note: | Requires OverDrive Media Console (WMA file size: 116904 KB; MP3 file size: 228842 KB). Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
Source of Description Note: | Description based on hard copy version record. |
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Subject: | Rabies -- Epidemiology -- History Rabies -- Treatment -- History MEDICAL / Forensic Medicine MEDICAL / Preventive Medicine MEDICAL / Public Health |
Genre: | Audiobooks. Downloadable audio books. |
Electronic resources
Summary:
A maddened creature, frothing at the mouth, lunges at an innocent victim--and with a bite, transforms its prey into another raving monster. It's a scenario that underlies our darkest tales of supernatural horror, but its power derives from a very real virus, a deadly scourge known to mankind from our earliest days. In this fascinating exploration, journalist Bill Wasik and veterinarian Monica Murphy chart four thousand years in the history, science, and cultural mythology of rabies...