Uniform Title
Doctor's plague. Portuguese
Title
A peste dos médicos : germes, febre pós-parto e a estranha história de Ignác Semmelweis / Sherwin B. Nuland ; tradução Ivo Korytowski ; prefácio Moacyr Scliar.
Publication
[São Paulo] : Companhia das Letras, [2005]
Copyright Notice Date
©2003
Physical Description
164 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Local Notes
BEIN Zab N912 EL2005K: Paperbound. From the Sherwin B. Nuland papers. Accompanied by: publisher's notecard (1 leaf).
Notes
Portuguese translation of Doctor's plague: germs, childbed fever, and the strange story of Ignác Semmelweis.
Summary
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.
Added to Catalog
September 25, 2024
Series
Coleção Grandes Descobertas