Today, medicine is seen as an authority and a sacred institution. But like any institution, it has a dark past. The story of Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis shows how medicine was terribly wrong and how the poor judgment of the doctors cost many women their lives. In 19th-century Vienna, the young doctor was rejected by his colleagues because he recommended something scandalous: washing his hands.
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Pittet, D., & Allegranzi, B. (2018). Preventing sepsis in the health care system - 200 years after the birth of Ignaz Semmelweis. Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin, 23(18), 18-00222.
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CLASSROOM EXERCISE
In this activity, students will learn how medical and scientific
progress and how beliefs and traditions sometimes affect the
Hindering progress.
Ask students if they believe doctors are always right.
Ask them if they can give examples from history or even today where doctors were terribly wrong — compared to what they know.
Show them Sprout's video on Dark Medicine: The Dark History of the
Hand washing
Ask her what she thinks Semmelweis could have done to improve the
change the opinion of his colleagues at the time.
Ask students if they believe that there are practices today that are similar to
are rejected, as was the case with hand washing back then.
If not, what has changed?
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