The Doctors' Plague
Read by
Peter Lerman
Release:
06/30/2020
Release:
06/30/2020
Release:
06/30/2020
Release:
06/30/2020
Runtime:
5h 16m
Runtime:
5h 16m
Runtime:
5h 16m
Quantity:
Surgeon, scholar, bestselling 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.
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.
Release:
2020-06-30
2020-06-30
2020-06-30
2020-06-30
Runtime:
Runtime:
Runtime:
Runtime:
5h 16m
5h 16m
5h 16m
5h 16m
Format:
audio
audio
audio
audio
Weight:
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0.8 lb
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781705242162
9798200782710
9798200782727
9798200782703
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