This paper seeks to analyze the book Sherwin B Nulands the Doctors Plague based on its content, style as well as merit, nevertheless we are going to look at the description of the branches of science involved as well as the scientific methods found in the book. This book was authored by Sherwin B. Nuland and was originally published in the year 2003; this book entails a revealing narrative of very important occurrences in the history of medicine. This book focuses on Ignac Semmelweis and the non compliance notion that doctors should examine patients after washing their hands. The character found out that doctors were responsible for spreading Childbed fever, these simple actions took shape immediately but the medical establishment those days
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Unlike the doctors, the book describes him as an individual armed with a meticulously well preserved records and a mind for advances in anatomical science, he dreams of an idea that would prove that the doctors spread the disease by not washing their hands between the patients they attended (Nuland, 2003). A scientific method is made up of five systematic steps that complete the entire process. Semmelweis first identifies the problem and in this case the issue of concern is the causes of childbed fever that has become prevalent in labor ward in Vienna. After identifying the problem, the researcher goes to the collection of data on the problem, whereby this can be through interviews, questionnaires or observation. In this book the person carrying out the research chose to be an observer, whereby he observes several occurrences in the wards. He observes how the labor wards are filled with pus filled sheets, medical students shifting from cadaver operations to pelvic examinations without cleaning their hands. The person writes down everything they observe after which they can come up with a hypothesis, for example Semmelweis could have had two hypotheses namely (a) Medical students conducting Cadaver operations and without washing hands made Pelvic examinations on birthing mothers led to the transmission of the disease childbed. (b) Doctors who did not wash hands between patients led to the transmission of the disease childbed
Unlike the doctors, the book describes him as an individual armed with a meticulously well preserved records and a mind for advances in anatomical science, he dreams of an idea that would prove that the doctors spread the disease by not washing their hands between the patients they attended (Nuland, 2003). A scientific method is made up of five systematic steps that complete the entire process. Semmelweis first identifies the problem and in this case the issue of concern is the causes of childbed fever that has become prevalent in labor ward in Vienna. After identifying the problem, the researcher goes to the collection of data on the problem, whereby this can be through interviews, questionnaires or observation. In this book the person carrying out the research chose to be an observer, whereby he observes several occurrences in the wards. He observes how the labor wards are filled with pus filled sheets, medical students shifting from cadaver operations to pelvic examinations without cleaning their hands. The person writes down everything they observe after which they can come up with a hypothesis, for example Semmelweis could have had two hypotheses namely (a) Medical students conducting Cadaver operations and without washing hands made Pelvic examinations on birthing mothers led to the transmission of the disease childbed. (b) Doctors who did not wash hands between patients led to the transmission of the disease childbed