Healing Kentucky: Medicine in the Bluegrass State (New Books for New Readers)

by NancyDisherBaird (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2007

  $13.06

  Tells the story of the 200 year struggle to provide good health care to all Kentuckians. This book describes Lexington schoolteacher Linda Neville's mission to treat the eye disease trachoma in rural Kentucky, Louise Caudill's efforts to open the first hospital in Morehead, the 1833 cholera epidemic, and other important episodes in medicine.