| The Doctors' Plague: Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignac Semmelweis Contributor(s): Nuland, Sherwin B. (Author) |
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ISBN: 039332625X ISBN-13: 9780393326253 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company OUR PRICE: $14.36 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2004 Annotation: SURGEON, SCHOLAR, BEST-SELLING AUTHOR, Sherwin B. Nuland tells the strange story of Ignac Semmelweis with urgency and the insight gained from his own studies and clinical experience. Ignac 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Medical (incl. Patients) - Medical | History |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2003011412 |
| Series: Great Discoveries (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.52" H x 5.42" W x 8.02" (0.40 lbs) 205 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Cultural Region - Central Europe |
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| Publisher Description: Surgeon, scholar, best-selling author, Sherwin B. Nuland tells the strange story of Ign c Semmelweis with urgency and the insight gained from his own studies and clinical experience. Ign c 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Nuland, Sherwin B.: - Sherwin B. Nuland (1930--2014) was the National Book Award-winning author of How We Die and clinical professor of surgery at the Yale University School of Medicine. |