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How does medical science advance? Popular historians would have us believe that a few heroic individuals, possessing superhuman talents, lead an unselfish quest to better the human condition. But as renowned Yale surgeon and medical historian Sherwin B. Nuland shows in this brilliant collection of lContinue
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The Fool of Pest
The life of Ignác Semmelweis (1818– 1865) is a puzzle that admits no solution. Here was a man whose painstaking investigations, while he was still only in his twenties, led him to devise a means to control the devastating epidemic of childbed fever t ... (read full critics)
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- English Books
- Paperback 544 Pages
- Edition: 2nd Vintage Books Ed
- ISBN-10: 0679760091
- ISBN-13: 9780679760092
- Publisher: Vintage
- Pub date: Jan 15, 1995
- Dimensions: 1290 mm x 839 mm x 194 mm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: Hardcover
- In other languages: other languages
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The Fool of Pest
The life of Ignác Semmelweis (1818– 1865) is a puzzle that admits no solution. Here was a man whose painstaking investigations, while he was still only in his twenties, led him to devise a means to control the devastating epidemic of childbed fever t ... (read full critics)