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    (1 other version)Hempel, Semmelweis and the true tragedy of puerperal fever.Marcos Barbosa de Oliveira & Brena Paula Magno Fernandez - 2007 - Scientiae Studia 5 (1):49-79.
    In his introductory textbook, Philosophy of natural science, Hempel presents, as an illustration and a starting point for an analysis of the processes of inventing and testing scientific theories, an account of the researches of Semmelweis the Hungarian physician who, in the middle of the xixth century, discovered the cause of puerperal fever and an effective method of prevention. The account does not involve anything that is factually untrue, but it is quite succinct, leaving out many important aspects of the (...)
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