Unclean Hands: A Novel Based on the True Story

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In mid-19th century, 30 percent of women admitted to the vast labor and delivery wards of the city’s charity hospital die of unknown cause. A brilliant young obstetrician in training defies the orders of his superiors to not meddle in this longstanding problem, but successfully finds the astonishing cause and implements its life-saving prevention, decades before germs were known about. He is then fired, discredited, and forced to leave Austria by the aristocratic and the obstinate, anti-science medical establishment, and driven to insanity to die in an asylum of mysterious causes.

Posthumously vindicated by medical science, he is now known today as “the savior of mothers.”