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

4.0

A very short and quick read about an interesting topic. Near the end it really became about something other than what I had expected. — the focus isn’t so much on the discovery of germs/contagious elements transferred from caregiver to patient, but in the particular and peculiar personality of Semmelweis and the effect it had on his career and notoriety.