Doctor Clean Hands: The Genius Whom the System Driven to Madness | Ignaz Semmelweis
He discovered something that saved millions of lives—twenty years before science could explain it. Viennese physician Ignaz Semmelweis proved that doctors' hands were killing their patients. The system responded with silence, then ridicule, then a mental hospital. How a man with absolute righteousness managed to lose to everyone at once—and why his story is as relevant today as it was a century and a half ago.
Sources and materials:
https://www.britannica.com/biography/...
https://semmelweisinstitute.ac.at/mis...
https://www.sciencehistory.org/educat...
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%97%...
https://techno.nv.ua/medicine/rody-i-...
https://rsml.by/ru/7823226627-2/
Book: Sherwin Nuland, "The Doctors' Plague" (2003) – the best biography to date.