Ignaz Semmelweis: hand washing Concepts

The Patient Will See You Now: The Future of Medicine Is in Your Hands

by Eric Topol · 6 Jan 2015 · 588pp · 131,025 words

can see plenty there that needs to be done.” —ALAN TURING3 Profound change has not ever gone over well in the medical community. When Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis published findings in 1848 that hand washing could markedly reduce mortality, it was summarily dismissed by doctors who were offended at the suggestion they should

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-online-consultation-with-patients/. 3. “Alan Turing,” Wikiquote, accessed August 13, 2014, http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alan_Turing. 4. “Ignaz Semmelweis,” Wikipedia, accessed August 13, 2014, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignaz_Semmelweis. 5. B. Ewigman et al., “Ethics and Routine Ultrasonography in Pregnancy,” American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology 163, no. 1 (1990

Framers: Human Advantage in an Age of Technology and Turmoil

by Kenneth Cukier, Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and Francis de Véricourt · 10 May 2021 · 291pp · 80,068 words

we may not always be able to find the right explanation. At the Vienna General Hospital in Austria in the 1840s, a young obstetrician named Ignaz Semmelweis noticed a strange difference in childbirths. Women in the maternity ward whose babies were delivered by doctors died of puerperal fever at five times the

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all surgeons to wash their hands. Lister, as a member of the establishment and offering detailed explanations in the scientific literature, succeeded where Semmelweis hadn’t. Today, he is considered the “father of modern surgery,” and his name is immortalized on the sterilizing mouthwash brand Listerine. The tragic case of Ignaz Semmelweis highlights that

Jellyfish Age Backwards: Nature's Secrets to Longevity

by Nicklas Brendborg · 17 Jan 2023 · 222pp · 68,595 words

. So perhaps it’s time we take a closer look at the world of microbes. Chapter 14 Microbe Struggles In 1847, the Hungarian-German physician Ignaz Semmelweis was trudging around Vienna with a burdened conscience. Semmelweis was an obstetrician, a doctor specialising in pregnancy and childbirth, and was in charge of the

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not long afterwards, he passed away. At his autopsy, doctors found suspicious similarities to the women with ‘childbed fever’ and then, something finally clicked for Ignaz Semmelweis. Back then, it was normal for doctors to go straight from conducting autopsies to attending deliveries: that is, from cutting open dead people to assisting

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Sports Exerc., vol. 53, no. 7, 2021, pp. 1385–1390. doi:10.1249/MSS.0000000000002595. Chapter 14: Microbe Struggles Zoltán, I. ‘Ignaz Semmelweis’, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 2020, www.britannica.com/biography/Ignaz-Semmelweis. Levy, C. ‘De nyeste Forsög i Födselsstiftelsen i Wien til Oplysning om Barselsfeberens Ætiologie’, Hospitals-Meddelelser, Tidskrift for praktisk Lægevidenskab, vol. 1

Randomistas: How Radical Researchers Changed Our World

by Andrew Leigh · 14 Sep 2018 · 340pp · 94,464 words

the doctor-run clinic. Some would give birth on the street instead of in the doctors’ clinic, because their chance of survival was higher. To Ignaz Semmelweis, the doctor in charge of records, the results were puzzling. Because the two clinics admitted patients on alternate days, the health of the patients should

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Story of 98.6’, Freakonomics Radio, 30 November 2016. 22For the story of Semmelweis, see Ignaz Semmelweis, Etiology, Concept and Prophylaxis of Childbed Fever, University of Wisconsin Press, 1983 [1861]; Rebecca Davis, ‘The doctor who championed hand-washing and briefly saved lives’, NPR, 12 January 2015. Mortality rates in the two clinics fluctuated significantly

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– the 1 in 10 and 1 in 20 figures are approximate averages for the period before handwashing was introduced. 23Carter, K. Codell & Barbara R. Carter, Childbed Fever. A Scientific Biography of Ignaz Semmelweis, Transaction

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Budget Office 194 US National Academy panel 100 US Police Foundation 89 ‘verbal bombardment’ and Perry Preschool 67 Vienna General Hospital 24–5 see also Ignaz Semmelweis Vietnam war draft 42–3 Virgin Atlantic Airways 136 ‘virginity pledges’ in the US 46–7 Wagner, Dan 159 Waiting for Superman 79 Washington Post

Atlas Obscura: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders

by Joshua Foer, Dylan Thuras and Ella Morton · 19 Sep 2016 · 1,048pp · 187,324 words

anatomical model with her intestines splayed open, an early X-ray machine, and a shrunken head, all housed in the very building in which Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis was born. However, the most interesting element of the museum is the story of Semmelweis himself. In the 1840s, Semmelweis, a Hungarian physician, was

10% Human: How Your Body's Microbes Hold the Key to Health and Happiness

by Alanna Collen · 4 May 2015 · 372pp · 111,573 words

a dose of antibiotics straight after they are born, just in case their mothers have gonorrhoea, which could, in rare cases, cause an eye infection. Ignaz Semmelweis would be pleased to see his antiseptic measures so thoroughly and effectively put into practice, and there’s no doubt that many thousands of mothers

How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World

by Steven Johnson · 28 Sep 2014 · 243pp · 65,374 words

; it simply doesn’t compute. It is a well-known story that the Hungarian physician Ignaz Semmelweis was roundly mocked and criticized by the medical establishment when he first proposed, in 1847, that doctors and surgeons wash their hands before attending to their patients. (It took almost half a century for basic antiseptic behaviors

The Geek Way: The Radical Mindset That Drives Extraordinary Results

by Andrew McAfee · 14 Nov 2023 · 381pp · 113,173 words

. The difference between the two states can be the difference between changing the world and losing your mind. The Germ of an Idea In 1846 Ignaz Semmelweis, who was working as what we’d now call a chief medical resident at Vienna General Hospital, noticed that one of its two birth clinics

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of disease slowed. (Can you imagine what would happen today to an obstetrician who refused to wash their hands before assisting in a delivery?) Those of us who want better companies are better off than poor Ignaz Semmelweis, because the equivalents of Pasteur’s demonstrations have recently taken place. As we’ll see, many

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Do? Other,” Working Knowledge, accessed February 13, 2023, https://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/clay-christensen-the-theory-of-jobs-to-be-done. 30 childbed fever: Ignaz Semmelweis, Etiology, Concept, and Prophylaxis of Childbed Fever, trans. K. Codell Carter (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1983), 142–43. 31 Word got around: Semmelweis, Etiology

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mortality rate: Semmelweis, Etiology, 142–43. 34 committed to a Viennese asylum: K. Codell Carter and Barbara R. Carter, Childbed Fever: A Scientific Biography of Ignaz Semmelweis (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2005), 76–78. 35 global average maternal mortality rate: “Maternal Mortality Ratio,” Our World in Data, accessed February 15, 2023

Radical Uncertainty: Decision-Making for an Unknowable Future

by Mervyn King and John Kay · 5 Mar 2020 · 807pp · 154,435 words

of puerperal fever was made by the Viennese physician Ignaz Semmelweis. In 1847, he discovered that the incidence of the infection was much lower for women giving birth at home than in hospital and that it was greatly reduced if doctors had washed their hands in chlorinated water. Semmelweis did not really know why

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our everyday lives. In earlier chapters we described some risk lovers who have changed society – Richard Branson, Winston Churchill, Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, George Orwell. Ignaz Semmelweis, whose dogmatic conviction of his own rightness drove him to insanity but helped save the lives of millions of women. Barry Marshall, who changed medical

The Half-Life of Facts: Why Everything We Know Has an Expiration Date

by Samuel Arbesman · 31 Aug 2012 · 284pp · 79,265 words

they are not subject to this cognitive bias themselves. There are well over a hundred of these biases that have been cataloged. . . . IN the 1840s, Ignaz Semmelweis was a noted physician with a keen eye. While he was a young obstetrician working in the hospitals of Vienna, he noticed a curious difference

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that those parts of the hospital that did not have their obstetricians also perform autopsies had similarly low amounts of childbed fever as home deliveries. Ignaz Semmelweis argued that the doctors—who weren’t just performing autopsies in addition to deliveries but were actually going directly from the morgue to the delivery