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“No Good Deed Goes Unpunished”: Ignaz Semmelweis and the Story of Puerperal Fever

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 May 2016

Joshua Manor ,
Nava Blum  and
Yoav Lurie
Joshua Manor*
Affiliation:
Department of Pathology, Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem, Israel
Nava Blum
Affiliation:
Department of Health Systems Administration, Max Stern Academic College of Emek Yezreel, Israel
Yoav Lurie
Affiliation:
Liver Unit, Inst. Dig. Dis., Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem, Israel
*
Address correspondence to Joshua Manor, MD, PhD, Department of Pathology, Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem, POB 3235, Jerusalem 91301, Israel (joshmanor@gmail.com).
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Abstract

Ignác Fülöp Semmelweis was born almost 200 years ago, in 1818, to a well-to-do middle class Hungarian family. He started law school in 1837, switched to medicine a year later, and graduated in 1844.

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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 37 , Issue 8 , August 2016 , pp. 881 - 887
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© 2016 by The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. All rights reserved 

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