Title:
Mark Rylance: why I had to tell the story of the genius who invented hospital hygiene
Author:
Vanessa Thorpe
Published:
The Guardian, 13 June 2020
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2020/jun/13/mark-rylance-why-i-had-to-tell-the-story-of-the-genius-who-invented-hospital-hygiene
From the article:
It was an “angry little book” telling the story of one of the great misunderstood pioneers of medicine that grabbed the attention of Mark Rylance, the Oscar-winning English actor. “I hadn’t known about Semmelweis, his work, or the tragic way he was oppressed by the medical authorities,” he said this weekend. “But then I picked up a copy of an old French biography, reprinted in translation by a friend of mine at Atlas Press, and found it very moving.”