Historian Nancy Disher Baird profiles David Wendel Yandell, the most distinguished physician in a Louisville medical family spanning generations and a longtime professor at the University of Louisville’s Medical Department.
A Confederate surgeon during the Civil War, Yandell saw firsthand how poorly most physicians were trained, and spent twenty years pushing to expand clinical facilities and create intern programs, both at his own school and nationally as a leader of the American Medical Association.
Baird’s biography paints a full picture of 19th-century medicine through the life of a practitioner who helped shape the modern medical profession in Kentucky and beyond.
Published 2009
134 pages
$20.00