Healing Kentucky [[electronic resource] ] : medicine in the Bluegrass State / / Nancy Disher Baird

• Autore: Baird Nancy Disher
• Pubblicazione: Lexington, Ky., : University Press of Kentucky, c2007
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (63 p.)
• Disciplina: 362.109769; 600
• Soggetto topico: Medicine - Kentucky - History - 19th century; Medicine - Kentucky - History - 20th century
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Front cover; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. She Lived!; 2. They Died Faster Than Coffins Could Be Made; 3. It's a Wonder That Anyone Survived; 4. No One Should Live in Filth; 5. He Had Red Sore Eyes and Is Blind; 6. Viruses Among Us; 7. It's the Law; 8. It Struck Fear in Every Parent's Heart; 9. You Could Die of Dog Smell; 10. Fixed Her Face; 11. Sounds Like Science Fiction; Final Comments; About the Author
• Sommario/riassunto: From the pioneering Danville surgeon Ephraim McDowell, the first doctor to successfully perform abdominal surgery, and Luke Blackburn, dubbed the ""Hero of Hickman"" and elected governor in 1879 after his efforts to combat yellow fever, to contemporary Kentucky doctors performing groundbreaking reconstructive surgery and artificial heart implants, Healing Kentucky tells the story of the two-hundred-year struggle to provide good health care to all Kentuckians. Nancy Disher Baird describes Lexington schoolteacher Linda Neville's mission to treat the eye disease trachoma in rural Kentucky, Lou
• Titolo autorizzato: Healing Kentucky
• ISBN: 0-8131-3790-X; 1-283-23238-3; 9786613232380; 0-8131-2629-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910781668903321
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