Childbed Fever and the Tragic Life of Ignaz Semmelweis
by
Theodore G. Obenchain
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
In Genius Belabored: Childbed Fever and the Tragic Life of Ignaz Semmelweis, Theodore G. Obenchain traces the life story of a nineteenth-century Hungarian obstetrician who was shunned and marginalized by the medical establishment for advancing a far-sighted but unorthodox solution to the appalling...