Listen free for 30 days

Listen with offer

Sample

  • The Doctors' Plague

  • Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignac Semmelweis
  • By: Sherwin B. Nuland
  • Narrated by: Peter Lerman
  • Length: 5 hrs and 15 mins
  • 2.5 out of 5 stars (2 ratings)

£0.00 for first 30 days

Try for £0.00
Thousands of incredible audiobooks and podcasts to take wherever you go.
Immerse yourself in a world of storytelling with the Plus Catalogue - unlimited listening to thousands of select audiobooks, podcasts and Audible Originals.
£7.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

The Doctors' Plague

By: Sherwin B. Nuland
Narrated by: Peter Lerman
Try for £0.00

£7.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically.

Buy Now for £12.99

Buy Now for £12.99

Pay using card ending in
Switch payment method
By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. Please see our Privacy Notice, Cookies Notice and Interest-based Ads Notice.

Summary

Surgeon, scholar, best-selling author, Sherwin B. Nuland tells the strange story of Ignác Semmelweis with urgency and the insight gained from his own studies and clinical experience.

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.
©2003 Sherwin B. Nuland (P)2020 Tantor
Medical History & Commentary World Biology History
Show More Show Less
activate_samplebutton_t1

Listeners also enjoyed...

 A Time for All Things cover art
The Excellent Doctor Blackwell cover art
Doctors on the Edge cover art
Taking Care cover art
The Guru, the Bagman and the Sceptic cover art
John Snow and the Cholera Epidemic of 1854 cover art
Leonardo Da Vinci cover art
Borrowing Life cover art
Mr. Humble and Dr. Butcher cover art
Phantom Plague cover art
Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung cover art
How to Remove a Brain cover art
Reconnecting After Isolation cover art
Elderhood cover art
On Immunity cover art
Bellevue cover art

What listeners say about The Doctors' Plague

Average customer ratings
Overall
  • 2.5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    0
  • 4 Stars
    1
  • 3 Stars
    0
  • 2 Stars
    0
  • 1 Stars
    1
Performance
  • 2.5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    0
  • 4 Stars
    1
  • 3 Stars
    0
  • 2 Stars
    0
  • 1 Stars
    1
Story
  • 3.5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    0
  • 4 Stars
    1
  • 3 Stars
    1
  • 2 Stars
    0
  • 1 Stars
    0

Reviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.

Audible.co.uk reviews

Amazon reviews
Sort by:
Filter by:
  • Overall
    1 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    1 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    3 out of 5 stars
Profile Image for Caroline

The worst narration I have ever come across.

The delivery of the narrator has ruined an otherwise well written book. I would have given it no stars out of 5 if it were possible. I persevered with the book as I wanted to hear the content but the deliver of this text could not have been worse. For a time I wondered if it was a human voice or a computer generated one. There is no appropriate inflection, no intonation, no relevant emotion in the entire piece. I could have done a better job myself.

I won't be listening to anything else that Peter Lerman has narrated.

Report this

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!