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* Nuland, Sherwin B. The Doctors' Plague: Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignac Semmelweis.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
Oct. 2003. 160p. illus. Norton/Atlas, $21.95 (0-393-05299-0). 618.7.
Nuland's second excellent book this year (after the superb memoir, Lost in America [BKL N 15 02]) focuses on a physician who, like Nuland in the midst of his career, suffered from severe psychological disease. Unlike Nuland, Ignac Semmelweis (1818-65) probably couldn't have recovered and, in any event, died under odd circumstances days after admission to a mental hospital. Nuland's thoughts about Semmelweis' illness and death are in the final chapter, and waiting for them is eminently worthwhile because of the riveting account of childbed, or puerperal, fever that comes first. Incidence of the bacterial disease attained massive proportions with the rise of the modern hospital and of giving birth there rather than at home, and enormous numbers of newborns as well as mothers perished. As the book's title suggests, dirty ...
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- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Bean, James R. May 7, 1997 700+ words
...the award-winning author Sherwin B. Nuland, a clinical professor of surgery at Yale...The Wisdom of the Human Body.'' Nuland draws his inspiration from William Harvey...circulation of blood. Describing Harvey, Nuland says: ``He writes in the grand tradition...
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- Magazine article from: Kliatt Moore, Patricia September 1, 2004 700+ words
NULAND, Sherwin B. Lost in America; a journey...SA How could anyone be lost in America? Nuland's Russian immigrant father, a difficult...entered as a young man in the early 1900s. Nuland, his youngest son and now a well-known...
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- Magazine article from: Epoca April 20, 1998 700+ words
Sherwin B. Nuland, autor de "La sabidura del cuerpo" "Quiero escribir...popular, como un buen periodista cientfico", dice Sherwin Nuland, profesor en Yale y cirujano. Nuland public en nuestro pas hace unos aos Cmo morimos. Reflexiones...
- Best Selling Author, Dr. Sherwin Nuland, to Speak at Harris Methodist Event;...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire October 5, 1999 700+ words
WHO: Dr. Sherwin Nuland, author of 1994's award-winning...the National Book Award in 1994. Dr. Nuland's most recent book is 1997's The...please call 817-882-3676. Dr. Nuland has been teaching at the Yale School...
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- Newspaper article from: European Report November 2, 2006 700+ words
...s Representative to NATO, Victoria Nuland. Speaking at an event on 30 October organised by the Brussels think tank CEPS, Nuland explained that the allies are working...is also very important, according to Nuland. Caveats pose a problem because then...
