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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Sherwin Nuland

The Doctors' Plague

Name: The Doctors' Plague
Author: Sherwin Nuland

Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignac Semmelweis

Paperback Engels 2004 1e druk 9780393326253

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'Riveting" (Houston Chronicle), "captivating" (Discover), and "compulsively readable' - San Francisco Chronicle.

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.

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ISBN13:9780393326253

Trefwoorden:geneeskunde

Taal:Engels

Bindwijze:paperback

Aantal pagina's:208

Uitgever:W. W. Norton & Company

Druk:1

Verschijningsdatum:3-12-2004

Hoofdrubriek:Non-fictie informatief/professioneel

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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.