Mea Culpa & The Life and Work of Semmelweis
Author : Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Publisher :
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 34,60 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Communism
ISBN :
Author : Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Publisher :
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 34,60 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Communism
ISBN :
Author : Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 33,65 MB
Release : 1937
Category : Communism
ISBN :
Author : Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Publisher : Atlas Press LLC
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 12,90 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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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. Ignacz Semmelweiss (1818-1865) was a doctor, now regarded as the father of the cure to antisepsis. His fellow doctors rejected both his reasoning and his methods, thereby causing many thousands of deaths in maternity wards across Europe. While originally written as a thesis towards his medical doctorate in 1924, it was not published until 1936.
Author : Sir William J Sinclair
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 10,22 MB
Release : 2023-07-18
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ISBN : 9781019702864
Ignaz Semmelweis was a pioneering physician in the 19th century who discovered the importance of hand hygiene in preventing the spread of infectious diseases. This fascinating biography by William J. Sinclair traces Semmelweis' life and work, exploring the social, cultural, and scientific contexts that shaped his ideas and achievements. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : K. Codell Carter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 11,38 MB
Release : 2017-07-12
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1351529080
The life and work of Ignaz Semmelweis is among the most engaging and moving stories in the history of science. Childbed Fever makes the Semmelweis story available to a general audience, while placing his life, and his discovery, in the context of his times. In 1846 Vienna, as what would now be called a head resident of obstetrics, Semmelweis confronted the terrible reality of childbed fever, which killed prodigious numbers of women throughout Europe and America. In May 1847 Semmelweis was struck by the realization that, in his clinic, these women had probably been infected by the decaying remains of human tissue. He believed that infection occurred because medical personnel did not wash their hands thoroughly after conducting autopsies in the morgue. He immediately began requiring everyone working in his clinic to wash their hands in a chlorine solution. The mortality rate fell to about one percent. While everyone at the time rejected his account of the cause of the disease because his theory was fundamentally inconsistent with existing medical beliefs about how diseases were transmitted, in time Semmelweis was proven to be correct. His work led to the adoption of a new way of thinking about disease, thus helping to create an entirely new theory - the etiological standpoint - that still dominates medicine today.
Author : Damian Catani
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 37,5 MB
Release : 2021-10-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 178914468X
The first English-language biography in more than two decades of the French writer, one of the great novelists of the twentieth century. Louis-Ferdinand Céline was one of the most innovative novelists of the twentieth century, and his influence both in his native France and beyond remains huge. This book sheds light on Céline’s groundbreaking novels, which drew extensively on his complex life: he rose from humble beginnings to worldwide literary fame, then dramatically fell from grace only to return, belatedly, to the limelight. Céline’s subversive writing remains fresh and urgent today, despite his controversial political views and inflammatory pamphlets that threatened to ruin his reputation. The first English-language biography of Céline in more than two decades, this book explores new material and reminds us why the author belongs in the pantheon of modern greats.
Author : Rosemarie Scullion
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,49 MB
Release : 1994-12-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780874516975
Eleven scholars provide a new interpretation of Celine's work and its underlying historical, cultural, and political matrix.
Author : Merlin Thomas
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 50,8 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780811207546
This book is neither an apology nor a defense, it's a critical biography of the late French novelist.
Author : Sir William Japp Sinclair
Publisher :
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 32,22 MB
Release : 1909
Category : Medicine
ISBN :
Author : Anthony Valerio
Publisher :
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 14,41 MB
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780990467519
Incredible Life & Work of Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis whose prescription WASH YOUR HANDS! for the pandemic of his time--childbed fever-went largely ignored, he was ultimately was placed in an asylum and there was killed. This book details the life of this great man & the process of his dicovveries