Childbed Fever: A Scientific Biography of Ignaz Semmelweis (Contributions in Medical Studies) - Hardcover

Carter, K. Codell; Carter, Barbara R.

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ISBN 10: 0313291462 ISBN 13: 9780313291463

Verlag: Praeger Publishers Inc, 1994

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.,."there 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."-Bull. Hist. Med.

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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.

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• Verlag: Praeger Publishers Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0313291462
• ISBN 13: 9780313291463
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 159