10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SEMMELWEIS»
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Semmelweis in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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Brechtian in style and somewhat anarchic in its politics, "Semmelweis" provides a biting critique of obtuse authority.
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Childbed Fever: A Scientific Biography of Ignaz
Semmelweis
The story of Hungarian obstetrician Semmelweis (1818-65) who proposed a method of reducing the incidence of childbed fever in maternity wards in 1847, was scorned and ridiculed by medical professionals, and died in an insane asylum after a ...
Kay Codell Carter, Barbara R. Carter, 1994
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The Etiology, Concept, and Prophylaxis of Childbed Fever
Carter’s translation of this radical work, judiciously abridged and extensively footnoted, captures all the drama and impassioned conviction of the original.
Ignác Fülöp Semmelweis, Kay Codell Carter, 1983
Celine is best known for his early novels Journey to the End of the Night (1932) and Death on the Instalment Plan (1936), but this delirious, fanatical and unreasonable account of the life of Semmelweiss predates them both.
Louis-Ferdinand Céline, 2008
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The Doctors' Plague: Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange ...
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.
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An Introduction to Epidemiology
Such a change in focus came through the work of another physician-
epidemiologist, Ignaz Semmelweis, in the early- to mid- 1800s.9 In the 1840s one
the greatest fears a pregnant mother had was dying of childbed fever (puerperal
fever).
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Doctors and Discoveries: Lives that Created Today's Medicine
In 1850 Ignaz Semmelweis, a Hungarian physician practicing in Vienna,
proposed that puerperal fever, a fatal and too common disease, was transmitted
to women during childbirth by physicians themselves. Invisible particles clinging
to the ...
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First Philosophy: Fundamental Problems and Readings in ...
A Case History as an Example As a simple illustration of some important aspects
of scientific inquiry let us consider Semmelweis' work on childbed fever. Ignaz
Semmelweis, a physician of Hungarian birth, did this work during the years from
1 ...
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Expectations of Life: A Study in the Demography, Statistics, ...
Semmelweis carried out experiments, painting the cervix of parturient rabbits with
material from human endometritis; disease resembling puerperal fever was so
produced. The successful therapeutic test however does not prove, as is ...
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Six Sigma in the Pharmaceutical Industry: Understanding, ...
Semmelweis was scientifically as well as medically trained. He was competent at
statistical analysis and what we now call the scientific method. He discarded most
of the proffered causes of childbed fever because they applied equally to the ...
Brian K. Nunnally, John S. McConnell, 2007
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SEMMELWEIS»
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Semmelweis is used in the context of the following news items.
Figyelem! Július 1: Semmelweis-nap, ügyeleti rend
Július 1-je Semmelweis Nap, a magyar egészségügy napja, egyben az egészségügyi dolgozók számára munkaszüneti nap. Így zárva vannak a háziorvosi ... «EgészségKalauz, Jun 15»
Mégis megbundázhatták a rektorválasztást a Semmelweis Egyetemen
A Semmelweis Egyetem szenátusa április elején zárt ülésen, titkos szavazással döntött a rektorjelölt személyéről. Hivatalosan csak annyit közöltek, hogy a ... «VS.hu, May 15»
Ignaz Semmelweis, the doctor who saved lives by prescribing hand …
On this date in 1850, a prickly Hungarian obstetrician named Ignaz Semmelweis stepped up to the podium of the Vienna Medical Society's lecture hall. It was a ... «PBS NewsHour, May 15»
165 years of washing your hands: Ignaz Semmelweis and the …
And in 1850, 165 years ago this month, a Hungarian obstetrician named Ignaz Semmelweis stood before his peers in Vienna and demanded they start washing ... «Michigan Radio, May 15»
What You Can't See Can Hurt You
Ignaz Semmelweis was a legend in 19th Century medicine. His discovery saved millions of lives; however, he was vilified for his work at the time. Why? And ... «Social Justice Solutions, May 15»
WHO/Europe celebrates Ignác Semmelweis' work on infection control
Ignác Semmelweis was a Hungarian physician and scientist who pioneered antisepsis procedures to control hospital infections. This year marks the 150th ... «World Health Organization, May 15»
El médico que murió por lavarse las manos
El húngaro Ignacio Felipe Semmelweis (1818-1865), de cuya muerte se ... honor y conmemorar este 2015 como el año de Semmelweis, algo para lo que entre ... «Diario Vasco, Apr 15»
Újrázhat a Semmelweis Egyetem rektora
A rektori tisztség betöltésére Szél Ágoston és Merkely Béla nyújtott be pályázatot. A szenátus mindkettejüket meghallgatta, majd titkos szavazással Szél ... «hvg.hu, Apr 15»
A Semmelweis Egyetem kézbesítőjét ölték meg Szegeden
A budapesti Semmelweis Egyetem (SE) Igazságügyi és Biztosítás-orvostani Intézet munkatársának holttestét találták meg kedden a kiskundorozsmai focipálya ... «Hir24.hu, Feb 15»
Látogatási tilalom a Semmelweis összes klinikáján
A járványügyi helyzetre tekintettel a Semmelweis Egyetem valamennyi klinikáján keddtől látogatási tilalmat rendelt el Szél Ágoston rektor – közölte az intézmény ... «mno.hu, Feb 15»
