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[Colgate, WI, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2005]

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[Milton Keynes, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2005]

Paperback / softback. New. 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. ISBN 1412804671 9781412804677 [GB]

Routledge, Date: 2005-02-28. Revised. paperback. Used:Good. 2005. Routledge ISBN 1412804671 9781412804677 [US]

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[Amherst, NY, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2005]

Transaction Pub, Date: 2005. Paperback. New. revised ed edition. 127 pages. 9.25x6.25x0.50 inches. 2005. Transaction Pub ISBN 1412804671 9781412804677 [GB]

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[Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2005]

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Transaction Pub, Date: 2005. Paperback. New. revised ed edition. 127 pages. 9.25x6.25x0.50 inches. 2005. Transaction Pub ISBN 1412804671 9781412804677 [GB]

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Transaction Publishers. New. Date: 2005. Paperback. 1412804671 .*** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request *** - *** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - FLAWLESS COPY - AVAILABLE IMMEDIATELY, WHY WAIT? -- 143 pages; clean and crisp, tight and bright pages, with no writing or markings to the text. -- DESCRIPTION: In the nineteenth century, tens of thousands of women died each year from childbed fever. The Carters describe birthing conditions and medical practices in Vienna during the time when young Semmelweis began to work in a maternity clinic there. He discovered that childbed fever arose because medical personnel did not wash adequately after dissecting corpses before doing vaginal examinations of women in labor. After he required students to disinfect themselves, the mortality rate immediately dropped. However, Semmelweis's views were not accepted by the senior physicians who believed the disease was due to a variety of causes. After strident attempts to persuade skeptics, Semmelweis was committed to a Viennese insane asylum where he died at age 42, possibly from beatings by asylum guards. Childbed fever, now called puerperal infection, continues to be a leading cause of maternal mortality, in spite of the best efforts of modern physicians. -- * * -- FS REVIEW: There is no reason to think that rejection of his ideas was etiologically related to his insanity apart from their sequential association. As with ...