Your Book Review: The Family That Couldn’t Sleep

Dive into the chilling world of prion diseases and their eerie connections to historical events and personal tragedies. Explore the haunting tale of a Venetian family grappling with fatal familial insomnia. Uncover the clash between Western medicine and indigenous practices in Papua New Guinea, and the ethical dilemmas surrounding it. Delve into prion diseases' dark legacy, examining governmental mismanagement in the UK. Finally, learn about the troubling rise of chronic wasting disease in North America and its significant ecological and ethical implications.