The Doctors' Plague: Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignac Semmelweis (Great Discoveries) Book Reviews

AUTHOR
Sherwin B. Nuland M.D.
SCORE
4.5
TOTAL RATINGS
154

The Doctors' Plague: Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignac Semmelweis (Great Discoveries) by Sherwin B. Nuland M.D. Book Summary

The "riveting" (Houston Chronicle), "captivating" (Discover), and "compulsively readable" (San Francisco Chronicle) story of the discovery that handwashing helps prevent the spread of disease.

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.

👋 Do you love The Doctors' Plague: Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignac Semmelweis (Great Discoveries) books? Please share your friends!

share facebook whatsapp twitter pinterest telegram email
Book Name The Doctors' Plague: Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignac Semmelweis (Great Discoveries)
Genre Biographies & Memoirs
Published
Language English
E-Book Size 1.95 MB

The Doctors' Plague: Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignac Semmelweis (Great Discoveries) (Sherwin B. Nuland M.D.) Book Reviews 2024

💸 Want to send money abroad for free?

We transfer money over €4 billion every month. We enable individual and business accounts to save 4 million Euros on bank transfer fees. Want to send free money abroad or transfer money abroad for free? Free international money transfer!

💰 A universe of opportunities: Payoneer

Did you know that you can earn 25 USD from our site just by registering? Get $25 for free by joining Payoneer!

🧠 Join the movement! Experience the world's No.1 brain supplement

Imagine you at your best. All the time. Picture yourself at your sharpest and most productive. Your most alert and focused. Your most lucid, creative and confident. At work. At play. In every area of your life. Add Mind Lab Pro® v4.0 to your daily routine and uncap your true potential. Buy Now!

👉 Are you looking for an Adsense alternative advertising platform?

Adsterra is the most preferred ad network for those looking for an alternative to AdSense. Adsterra is the ideal choice for new sites with low daily traffic. In order to advertise on the site in Adsterra, like other ad networks, a certain traffic limit, domain age, etc. is required. There are no strict rules. Sign up!

Please wait! The Doctors' Plague: Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignac Semmelweis (Great Discoveries) book comments loading...

Sherwin B. Nuland M.D. - The Doctors' Plague: Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignac Semmelweis (Great Discoveries) Discussions & Comments

Have you read this book yet? What do you think about The Doctors' Plague: Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignac Semmelweis (Great Discoveries) by Sherwin B. Nuland M.D. book? Ask the bookpedia.co community a question about The Doctors' Plague: Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignac Semmelweis (Great Discoveries)!

The Doctors' Plague: Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignac Semmelweis (Great Discoveries) E-book (PDF, PUB, KINDLE) Download

The Doctors' Plague: Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignac Semmelweis (Great Discoveries) ebook the-doctors-plague-germs-childbed-fever (1.95 MB) download new links will be update!

The Doctors' Plague: Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignac Semmelweis (Great Discoveries) Similar Books

Book Name Score Reviews Price
The Confessions of St. Augustine 4/5 323 Free
American Sniper 4.5/5 8,422 $9.99
No Easy Day 4.5/5 11,865 $6.99
The Life of Abraham Lincoln 4/5 786 Free
Bossypants 4.5/5 4,237 $8.99

Enhance sleep, vision, cognition, flexibility, energy, long-range health and more. Performance Lab CORE Formulas support all aspects of human performance, across all walks of life. Boosts work performance and productivity with nootropics for focus, multitasking under stress, creative problem-solving and more.

Other Books from Sherwin B. Nuland M.D.
Book Name Score Reviews Price

Summary of The Doctors' Plague: Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignac Semmelweis (Great Discoveries) by Sherwin B. Nuland M.D.

The The Doctors' Plague: Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignac Semmelweis (Great Discoveries) book written by Sherwin B. Nuland M.D. was published on 17 November 2004, Wednesday in the Biographies & Memoirs category. A total of 154 readers of the book gave the book 4.5 points out of 5.

Free Biographies & Memoirs Books
Book Name Author Price
Roughing It in the Bush Susanna Moodie Free
Memoir of Old Elizabeth, A Coloured Woman Anonymous Free
Make Something Wonderful Steve Jobs Free
JAY Z S. Smart Free
Abdullah Bin Mubarak Naima Sohaib Free

Coinbase is the world's most trusted place to buy and sell cryptocurrency. Open an account today, and if you buy or sell $100 or more of crypto, you'll receive $10 worth of free Bitcoin!

Paid Biographies & Memoirs Books
Book Name Author Price
Wild Cheryl Strayed $9.99
Educated Tara Westover $14.99
Hustle Harder, Hustle Smarter 50 Cent $13.99
A Woman of No Importance Sonia Purnell $12.99
Steve Jobs Walter Isaacson $16.99

Jasper is the generative AI platform for business that helps your team create content tailored for your brand 10X faster, wherever you work online.