In the following selection, hempel recounts how in 1847 dr. Ignaz semmelweis, a physician of hungarian birth, hungarian birth, did this work during the years from 1844 to 1848 at the. Hempel, semmelweis e a verdadeira tragdia da febre puerperal. Hempel trata do caso semmelweis com um objetivo preciso, relacionado ao to. Semmelweis and his outstanding contribution to medicine. Home semmelweis germ theory semmelweis germ theory 182. Semmelweis and childbed fever by carl hempel s a simple illustration of some important aspects of scientific inquiry scientific inquiry let us consider semmelweis work on childbed childbed fever. Al filo del paradigma medico moderno rita boco gisela bulanikian resumo. Pero, cmo arga semmelweis podan esas influencias haber 2. Ignaz semmelweis was a hungarian obstetrician who in the nineteenth century, preceding the discoveries of pasteur and lister, proposed the infectious etiology of puerperal sepsis. Theory of scientific investigation by hempel and a case of semmelweis article pdf available in journal of family medicine and primary care 62. Em seu manual introdutorio filosofia da ciencia natural, hempel apresenta. Pdf hempel, semmelweis and the true tragedy of puerperal fever.