Ideas Once Ignored—Asepsis in Surgery and Child Abuse—Now Conventional Wisdom

For most of history, surgeons did not wash their hands and sterilize their instruments (1), and society did not take child abuse seriously (2). But now the importance of these ideas is conventional wisdom.

An analogy to the idea “multiple personality trait” may seem far-fetched.

1. Wikipedia. “Asepsis.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asepsis

2. Wikipedia. “Child abuse.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_abuse