The Doctors' Plague, 1st Edition
Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignac Semmelweis
$36.24
- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
8 January 2010
Summary
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. Wh…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780393326253 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 039332625X |
| Author: | Sherwin B. Nuland |
| Publisher: | WW Norton & Co |
| Imprint: | WW Norton & Co |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 8 January 2010 |
| Weight: | 191g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 140mm x 18mm |
| Series: | Great Discoveries |
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“Nuland has managed to rediscover a critical moment in the history of medicine, the anxieties of which…persist today.”
“Nuland has managed to rediscover a critical moment in the history of medicine, the anxieties of which…persist today.” – New York Times Book Review
About The Author
Sherwin B. Nuland
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.
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