Hannah’s Reviews > The Doctors' Plague: Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignac Semmelweis > Status Update

Missing from most conversations about how "everybody refused to listen to Semmelweis telling doctors to wash their hands after dissecting cadavers" is the info (here) about Semmelweis refusing to publish, only running 1 set of rather crappy animal experiments, and the Big Politics of Vienna at that particular moment.