Editing Ignaz Semmelweis (section)

===Literature===
* {{citation
|last1=Semmelweis |first1=Ignác|last2=von Györy|first2=Tiberius |title=Semmelweis's Gesammelte Werke Herausgegeben und zum Theil aus dem Ungarischen Übersetzt|trans-title=The complete published works of Semmelweis, in part published from Hungarian |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oVDSUzGAU1cC|year=1905|publisher=Jena Verlag von Gustav Fischer|language=de|page=604 |ref=none}} is the classic reference, in Latin print, not the original Gothic print.
* [[Louis-Ferdinand Céline]] completed his M.D. thesis on Semmelweis in 1924. It was published as a fictionalized biography under the title ''La Vie et l'œuvre de Philippe Ignace Semmelweis'' in 1936 (English versions: ''The Life and Work of Semmelweis'', tr. by Robert Allerton Parker, Boston : Little, Brown and Company, 1937; ''Semmelweis'', tr. by John Harman, Atlas Press, 2008).
* In William Forstchen's ''[[The Lost Regiment]]'' series of novels, one of the main characters is a doctor named Emil Weiss, the regiment's surgeon.  On multiple occasions, it is mentioned that he had studied under Semmelweis and as such had developed effective sanitation techniques to avoid infection when treating injuries.
* [[Morton Thompson]]'s 1949 novel ''[[The Cry and the Covenant]]'' is a fictionalized account based on the life of Semmelweis.
* ''Motherkillers'', a novel by John Piper, based on the Semmelweis story.{{sfn|Piper|2007}}
* [[Kurt Vonnegut]] praises Semmelweis at length in his 2005 memoir, ''[[A Man Without a Country]]'', portraying his story as a tragic tale of a powerful force for good being ignored, mocked and derided in his own time. Vonnegut called him "my hero" and held his story up as a beneficial example for all mankind.
* ''Genius Belabored: Childbed Fever and the Tragic Life of Ignaz Semmelweis'', by Theodore G. Obenchain.{{sfn|Obenchain|2016}}
* {{citation|title=Semmelweis Ignác rövid boldogsága|trans-title=The Brief Happiness of Ignaz Semmelweis}}, a 2022 novel by {{ill|Péter Gárdos|hu|Gárdos Péter (filmrendező)}}, a fictionalized account of the life of Semmelweis.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Jankovics |first1=Márton |title=Az is bolond, aki zsenivé lesz Magyarországon – ilyen lenne Thuróczy Szabolcs az el nem készült Semmelweis-filmben |url=https://24.hu/kultura/2022/09/26/semmelweis-ignac-rovid-boldogsaga-regeny-film-elozetes-gardos-peter-thuroczy-szabolcs-jordan-tamas/ |access-date=13 August 2024 |work=[[24.hu]] |date=26 September 2022 |language=Hungarian}}</ref>