1) The Doctors Plague
The biography of a failed genius and also of a seminal idea. The genius is Ignac Semmelweis , the brooding , meticulous , 19th Century obstretrician who deduced solely through his observation of his patients how to stop fevers that made childbirth womankind's single most common cause of deaths for centuries.
With deaths of childbed fevers exploding, Semmelweis discovered that doctors were themselves spreading the disease . W hile his simple reforms worked immediately , they also threatened the medical establishment and so undid the the passionate but self destructive Semmelweis that he failed to overturn the status quo , leaving later to medical giants - Pasteur , Lister , and Koch , to establish conclusively the germ theory of the disease.
Authors: Sherwan B. Nuland .
Publishers: W.W Norton & Co
Date of Publication: 2003
No. of pages: 191
2) Expecting Miracles - On the path of hope from infertility to Parenthood.
Offering a unique combination of hope, compassion and cutting edge technology, Dr Christo Zouves has changed the lives of thousands of patients, many of whom have been through fertility mill and told they cannot have children. But the paths that these couples to his door and the treatments that follow are nothing less than miracle stories , stories of hope , medicine , persistence and pure desire.
Recognizing that undergoing fertility procedures can be an emotional roller coaster ride for couples, Zouves carefully takes the readers through the day -by -day choice by choice process of battling infertility.
Authors: Christo Zoves (M.D) with Julie Sullivan
Publishers: A Perigee Book
Date of Publication: 1999
No. of pages: 263
