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Surgeon, scholar, best-selling author, Sherwin B. Nuland tells the strange story of Ignác Semmelweis with urgency and the insight gained from his own studies and clinical experience. Ignác Semmelweis is remembered for the now-commonplace notion that doctors must wash their hands before examining patients. In mid-nineteenth-century Vienna, however, this was a subversive idea. With deaths from childbed fever exploding, Semmelweis discovered that doctors themselves were spreading the disease. While his simple reforms worked immediately—childbed fever in Vienna all but disappeared—they brought down upon Semmelweis the wrath of the establishment, and led to his tragic end.

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Cirujano, erudito y autor de libros de éxito, Sherwin B. Nuland es uno de nuestros mejores cronistas de la historia de la medicina. Obsesionado durante veinticinco años con la enigmática historia de Ignác Semmelweis, Nuland nos la cuenta con el rigor que le proporcionan sus propios estudios y su experiencia clínica.Ignác Semmelweis es recordado por la idea, ahora asumida, de que los médicos han de lavarse las manos antes de examinar a sus pacientes. Sin embargo, en la Viena de mediados del siglo XIX, ésta era una idea subversiva. Enfrentado a una explosión de muertes provocadas por la fiebre puerperal, Semmelweis descubrió que los propios médicos eran los responsables de la transmisión de la enfermedad. Mientras que sus sencillas reformas obtuvieron resultados inmediatos, también supusieron una amenaza para el establishment médico. En aquella época, los microbios aún no eran ampliamente conocidos como vectores de enfermedades, y muchos médicos ridiculizaron la noción de que la falta de higiene de las manos fuera responsable de la muerte de las pacientes. Condenado al ostracismo por sus colegas, el Dr. Semmelweis acabó ingresado en un manicomio, donde fue sistemáticamente molido a palos por sus guardianes hasta que murió de sus heridas infectadas.

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What happens to us as we die? Discover the answers in this exclusive 25th anniversary edition of Sherwin B Nuland’s seminal book With a foreword by Paul Kalanithi, bestselling author of When Breath Becomes Air.There are many books intended to help people deal with the trauma of bereavement, but few which explore the reality of death itself. Sherwin B. Nuland - with over thirty years' experience as a surgeon - explains in detail the processes which take place in the body and strips away many illusions about death. The result is a unique and compelling book, addressing the one final fact that all of us must confront.'I don't know of any writer or scientist who has shown us the face of death as clearly, honestly and compassionately as Sherwin Nuland does here' James Gleick, author of Chaos

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"A kaleidoscope of creativity ...unsentimental and sometimes unpredictable."-Journal of the American Medical Association Founded just six years ago, Bellevue Literary Review is already widely recognized as a rare forum for emerging and celebrated writers-among them Julia Alvarez, Raphael Campo, Rick Moody, and Abraham Verghese-on issues of health and healing. Gathered here are poignant and prizewinning stories, essays, and poems, the voices of patients and those who care for them, which form the journal's remarkable dialogue on "humanity and the human experience." Danielle Ofri, MD, author of Incidental Findings and Singular Intimacies, is the editor in chief of Bellevue Literary Review. She lives in New York City.

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