Sherwin B Nuland

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The Doctors' Plague: Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignac SemmelweisPaperback, 17 November 2004

The Doctors' Plague: Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignac Semmelweis
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Great Discoveries
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Great Discoveries (Paperback)
Print Length
205 pages
Language
English
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Date Published
17 Nov 2004
ISBN-10
039332625X
ISBN-13
9780393326253

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Surgeon, scholar, best-selling author, Sherwin B. Nuland tells the strange story of Ignác Semmelweis with urgency and the insight gained from his own studies and clinical experience. Ignác Semmelweis is remembered for the now-commonplace notion that doctors must wash their hands before examining patients. In mid-nineteenth-century Vienna, however, this was a subversive idea. With deaths from childbed fever exploding, Semmelweis discovered that doctors themselves were spreading the disease. While his simple reforms worked immediately--childbed fever in Vienna all but disappeared--they brought down upon Semmelweis the wrath of the establishment, and led to his tragic end.

Product Details

Author:
Sherwin B Nuland
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
17 November 2004
Dimensions:
20.37 x 13.77 x 1.32 cm
ISBN-10:
039332625X
ISBN-13:
9780393326253
Language:
English
Location:
New York, NY
Pages:
205
Weight:
181.44 gm

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