The Semmelweis case
From Part 3 of Stephen Hicks’s Philosophy of Education course, in which he discusses Ignaz Semmelweis’s discovery of the cause of puerperal fever, with special focus on the cognitive methods Semmelweis used.
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Tags: Ignaz Semmelweis, Kolletschka, puerperal fever, scientific method
