Doctor's plague. Portuguese

A peste dos médicos : germes, febre pós-parto e a estranha história de Ignác Semmelweis / Sherwin B. Nuland ; tradução Ivo Korytowski ; prefácio Moacyr Scliar.

[São Paulo] : Companhia das Letras, [2005]

©2003

164 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.

BEIN Zab N912 EL2005K: Paperbound. From the Sherwin B. Nuland papers. Accompanied by: publisher's notecard (1 leaf).

Portuguese translation of Doctor's plague: germs, childbed fever, and the strange story of Ignác Semmelweis.

Analyzes how doctor Ignac Semmelweis's reforms of the medical field led to his discovery of the correlation between hand washing and reduced infection, recounting how his work contributed to the establishment of germ theory.

Portuguese

September 25, 2024

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