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The Doctors' Plague: Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignác Semmelweis
Nuland, Sherwin B. The Doctors' Plague: Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignác Semmelweis. New York: W. W. Norton, 2003.
Why this matters here
Nuland's historical account of Semmelweis and childbed fever examines medical resistance to handwashing evidence. The chapter cites the case for institutional forgetting, separate from its Therac-25 example.
