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Classical 89 is pleased to bring you thoughtful, educated voices in our radio interview program Thinking Aloud. As a service to the community at large, we offer regular interviews with scholars, students, and campus guests, on a broad range of topics.
Thinking Aloud airs every weekday (except Tuesdays) at 11am Mountain Time, on Classical 89–Great Music Sound Ideas at 89.1 & 89.5 FM and online at http://www.classical89.org/streaming.
Interview For Thursday, May 08, 2008
Houses of Birth and Houses of Death
It may be hard to believe today, but there was a time when young doctors walked straight from their research in the morgue to the delivery room. Childbed fever killed more than a million women in nineteenth century Europe. Modern medicine, and most people born today, owe much to the pioneering work of Dr. Ignaz Semmelweiss. We're talking with K. Codell Carter about his book Childbed Fever: A Scientific Biography of Ignaz Semmelweiss .
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