title: "No Good Deed Goes Unpunished": Ignaz Semmelweis and the Story of Puerperal Fever.
abstract: Ignác Fülöp Semmelweis was born almost 200 years ago, in 1818, to a well-to-do middle class Hungarian family. He started law school in 1837, switched to medicine a year later, and graduated in 1844.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem, Israel.
authors.forename: Joshua
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Manor
authors.affiliation: Department of Health Systems Administration, Max Stern Academic College of Emek Yezreel, Israel.
authors.forename: Nava
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Blum
authors.affiliation: Liver Unit, Inst. Dig. Dis., Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem, Israel.
authors.forename: Yoav
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Lurie
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D049671:History, 18th Century; D049672:History, 19th Century; D006801:Humans; D006814:Hungary; D011645:Puerperal Infection / Q000266:history* / Q000517:prevention & control*