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The Doctors' Plague

An analysis of nineteenth-century Viennese doctor Ignac Semmelweis's reforms of the medical establishment describes his discovery of the correlation between hand washing and reduced infection, recounting how his early work contributed to the subsequent establishment of germ theory.


Author:

  • Sherwin B. Nuland

Narrator:

  • Peter Lerman

Format:

  • Audiobook

Duration:

  • 5 h 15 min

Language:

English

Categories:

  • Biographies
  • Natural sciences and medicine
  • Nonfiction
  • Medicine and nursing

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