A review by msmouse
The Doctors' Plague: Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignac Semmelweis by Sherwin B. Nuland

3.0

This book was a really good history of a forgotten problem. Before we understood germ theory there were so many situations where doctors just couldn't figure out why people were dying seemingly without a direct cause. This is the story of one of those situations, with a tragically high death toll, and one doctor who did figure it out, though he stopped just short of discovering all of germ theory.

It's a very interesting subject, unfortunately written more in the style of a university paper than a novel or biography, but still very readable. I liked it.