The Birth Of Love: A Novel
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| Originally published | 2010 |
| Authors | Joanna Kavenna |
| Genres | Medical Fiction |
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| ID | 1155084 |
About The Birth Of Love: A Novel
From the winner of the Orange Award for New Writers, an epic novel of childbirth—past, present, and future The year is 1865. In Vienna, Dr. Ignasz Semmelweiss has been hounded into an asylum by his medical peers, ridiculed for his claim that doctors' unwashed hands are the root cause of childbed fever. . . .