Asleep: The Forgotten Epidemic That Remains One of Medicine's Greatest Mysteries, (Paperback)

from Helcura

I just finished listening to the audio version of this book and came away quite a bit more pleased with it than I was with the text version. The narrator read well, with good pacing, tone and few mispronunciations, but more than that, the lush descriptions that were a bit tedious as text came ali...

from molloaggie

It's hard to write a history of a disease for which there is no ending. This work isn't a happily ever after tale, but an ongoing mystery even in our world today. Ms. Crosby writes well but includes a lot of information to write a story narrative that I thought was just thrown in there. Though I'...

from picardyrose

What was it? Why doesn't anyone ever get it anymore? How do I know I don't have it now?

from atiara

Interesting and well-written but it seemed like there were still a lot of typos in the text. Ultimately not very satisfying, since there are still a lot of questions about the book's topic, epidemic encephalitis. Like the author, I wondered that I hadn't heard much about this disease before.

from neurodrew

Asleep Subtitle: The Forgotten Epidemic that Remains One of Medicine's Greatest Mysteries Molly Caldwell Crosby Tuesday, April 10, 2012 8:54 PM I searched out this book as part of my recent interest in the influenza epidemic and post-encephalitic Parkinson's disease. It was not impressive. Ms Cro...