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Childbed Fever: A Scientific Biography of Ignaz Semmelweis
K. Codell Carter
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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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc United States
Number of pages
144
Condition
New
Number of Pages
159
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780313291463
SKU
V9780313291463
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About K. Codell Carter
K. CODELL CARTER teaches at Brigham Young University./e He has edited Semmelweis's writings and published on other historical figures in the history of medicine. BARBARA R. CARTER has taught at Cornell University and Brigham Young University.
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