The Semmelweis case

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From Part 3 of Stephen Hicks’s Philosophy of Education course, in which he discusses Ignaz Semmelweis’s discovery of the cause of puerperal fever, with special focus on the cognitive methods Semmelweis used.

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Stephen Hicks, “The Semmelweis Case,” Clip 1 (Philosophy of Education Part 3, Section 6)

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