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Childbed Fever : A Scientific Biography of Ignaz Semmelweis by K. Codell Carter and Barbara R. Carter (2005, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherTaylor & Francis Group
ISBN-101412804671
ISBN-139781412804677
eBay Product ID (ePID)43115851
Product Key Features
Number of Pages142 Pages
Publication NameChildbed Fever : a Scientific Biography of Ignaz Semmelweis
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2005
SubjectHematology, Physicians, Sociology / General, Medical, History
FeaturesRevised
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaSocial Science, Biography & Autobiography, Medical
AuthorK. Codell Carter, Barbara R. Carter
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.4 in
Item Weight7.3 Oz
Item Length9.4 in
Item Width6.9 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceCollege Audience
LCCN2004-056156
Reviews"This delightful, clearly written little book is not so much the biography of a man as the biography of a disease: puerperal fever." -- Journal of the American Medical Association "[T]here is much that is new and stimulating in this short biography of one of the most complex and puzzling of all the famous doctors of the nineteenth century. It is well worth reading, for Semmelweis is a much more interesting study than the cardboard saint of the standard biographies." --Bulletin for the History of Medicine
Dewey Edition22
Dewey Decimal618.2/0092 B
Table Of Content1: Vienna's General Hospital; 2: Childbed Fever; 3: Semmelweis's Discovery; 4: Resorption Fever; 5: Mayrhofer's Discovery; 6: Puerperal Infection; Postscript
Edition DescriptionRevised edition
SynopsisThe life and work of Ignaz Semmelweis is among the most engaging and moving stories in the history of science. Childbed Fever makes the Semmelweis story available to a general audience, while placing his life, and his discovery, in the context of his times., The life and work of Ignaz Semmelweis is among the most engaging and moving stories in the history of science. Childbed Fever makes the Semmelweis story available to a general audience, while placing his life, and his discovery, in the context of his times. In 1846 Vienna, as what would now be called a head resident of obstetrics, Semmelweis confronted the terrible reality of childbed fever, which killed prodigious numbers of women throughout Europe and America. In May 1847 Semmelweis was struck by the realization that, in his clinic, these women had probably been infected by the decaying remains of human tissue. He believed that infection occurred because medical personnel did not wash their hands thoroughly after conducting autopsies in the morgue. He immediately began requiring everyone working in his clinic to wash their hands in a chlorine solution. The mortality rate fell to about one percent. While everyone at the time rejected his account of the cause of the disease because his theory was fundamentally inconsistent with existing medical beliefs about how diseases were transmitted, in time Semmelweis was proven to be correct. His work led to the adoption of a new way of thinking about disease, thus helping to create an entirely new theory - the etiological standpoint - that still dominates medicine today.
LC Classification NumberRG510.S4C37 2004
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