A review by peregrineace
The Doctors' Plague: Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignac Semmelweis by Sherwin B. Nuland

4.0

Not an overly technical book, but a good story without too much hero worship to cloud the history involved. A quick but thorough read on the beginning of germ science in medicine, particularly the story of Ignac Semmelweis and the problems he both encountered and created when trying to implement hand-washing as standard hospital procedure. Very interesting and definitely worth the time.