The Doctors' Plague by Sherwin B. Nuland

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/124380 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Doctors' Plague Author: Sherwin B. Nuland Narrator: Peter Lerman Format: mp3 Length: 5 hrs and 15 mins Release date: 06-30-20 Ratings: 4 out of 5 stars, 21 ratings Genres: History & Commentary Publisher's Summary: Ignác Semmelweis is remembered for the now-commonplace notion that doctors must wash their hands before examining patients. In mid-19th 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.