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The "riveting" (Houston Chronicle), "captivating" (Discover), and "compulsively readable" (San Francisco Chronicle) story of the discovery that handwashing helps prevent the spread of disease.

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"Nuland has managed to rediscover a critical moment in the history of medicine, the anxieties of which…persist today." -- New York Times Book Review

The Doctors Plague

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A Paperback / softback by Sherwin B. Nuland

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    Publisher: WW Norton & Co
    Publication Date: 03/12/2004
    ISBN13: 9780393326253, 978-0393326253
    ISBN10: 039332625X
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    The arts: general topics Public health and preventive medicine

    Description

    Book Synopsis
    The "riveting" (Houston Chronicle), "captivating" (Discover), and "compulsively readable" (San Francisco Chronicle) story of the discovery that handwashing helps prevent the spread of disease.

    Trade Review
    "Nuland has managed to rediscover a critical moment in the history of medicine, the anxieties of which…persist today." -- New York Times Book Review

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