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Semmelweis

Semmelweis

Valerio, Anthony

Paperback

Historical FiguresMedical ReferenceWomen's Health

Publisher Price: $18.00

ISBN10: 0990467511
ISBN13: 9780990467519
Publisher: Anthony Valerio
Published: May 5 2020
Pages: 248
Weight: 0.74
Height: 0.52 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

SEMMELWEIS by best-selling author is the Life and Work of pioneering physician Ignaz P. Semmelweis, who discovered the causes and means of prevention of the pandemic of his day, childbed fever. Called the Father of Antisepsis, he was largely ignored, placed in an asylum and murdered. What lessons do his extraordinary life & work carry forward to today? This book details his life from his beginnings in a small town in Budapest, Hungary through the early years of his medical career in Vienna, the process by which he discovered the causes & means of childbed fever--and his theory of infection fifty years before Louis Pasteur--his & a few colleagues' attempts to desseminate his work worldwide, his expulsion from Vienna, his attempt to lead a conventional lfie of wife and children, his physical and mental decline and finally his incarceration in an insane asylum where he was killed. A reflex is named for him. The Semmelweis Reflex: human behavior characterized by the reflex rejection of new knowledge that goes against entrenched norms, beliefs, and paradigms.SEMMELWEIS by best selling author Anthony Valerio is supported by years of reseach and is all true and, at the same time, reads like a medical thriller told by an acclaimed storyteller.

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