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The Doctors' Plague: Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignac Semmelweis (Great Discoveries)
The Doctors' Plague Germs Childbed Fever and the Strange Story of Ignac Semmelweis - Great Discoveries
Author: Sherwin B. Nuland
A great medical detective story, by the author of the best-selling How We Die. Surgeon, scholar, best-selling author, Sherwin B. Nuland is one of our finest chroniclers of the history of medicine. Obsessed for twenty-five years with Ignac Semmelweis's strange story, Nuland tells it with the urgency and insight gained from his own studies...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780393052992
ISBN-10: 0393052990
Publication Date: 10/2003
Pages: 160
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Publisher: W. W. Norton Company
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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