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Semmelweiss

ISBN-13: 9781900565479

Contributor(s): Louis-Ferdinand Celine (author), Philippe Sollers (introduction by), John Harman (translated by)

Subjects: Modern & Contemporary Fiction (Post 1945)

Publisher: Atlas Press

Publisher Imprint: Atlas Press

Publication Date: 08-09-2008

Format: Paperback

Availability: In stock

£10.00

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About the book

Celine is best known for his early novels Journey to the End of the Night (1932) and Death on the Instalment Plan (1936), but this delirious, fanatical and unreasonable account of the life of Semmelweiss predates them both. Ignacz Semmelweiss (1818-1865) was a doctor, now regarded as the father of the cure to antisepsis. His fellow doctors rejected both his reasoning and his methods, thereby causing many thousands of deaths in maternity wards across Europe. While originally written as a thesis towards his medical doctorate in 1924, it was not published until 1936.

Semmelweiss

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