God's hotel : a doctor, a hospital, and a pilgrimage to the heart of medicine / Victoria Sweet.
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Sweet, Victoria (författare)
- ISBN 9781594486548
- First Riverhead trade paperback edition.
- Publicerad: New York : Riverhead Books, [2013]
- Copyright: ©2012
- Engelska x, 416 pages
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- "San Francisco's Laguna Honda Hospital is the last almshouse in the country, a descendant of the Hotel-Dieu (God's Hotel) that cared for the sick in the Middle Ages. Ballet dancers and rock musicians, professors and thieves--"anyone who had fallen, or, often, leapt, onto hard times" and needed extended medical care-ended up here. So did Victoria Sweet, who came for two months and stayed for twenty years. Laguna Honda, lower tech but human paced, gave Sweet the opportunity to practice a kind of attentive medicine that has almost vanished. Gradually, the place transformed the way she understood her work. Alongside the modern view of the body as a machine to be fixed, her extraordinary patients evoked an older idea, of the body as a garden to be tended. God's Hotel tells their story and the story of the hospital itself, which, as efficiency experts, politicians, and architects descended, determined to turn it into a modern "health care facility," revealed its own surprising truths about the essence, cost, and value of caring for body and soul"--Provided by publisher.
- "Choosing service in the last remaining almshouse in America, and tracing our understanding of medicine back to its medieval roots, a physician uncovers lost lessons in the care of body and soul"--Provided by publisher.
Ämnesord
- Hälso- och sjukvård (sao)
- Läkare (sao)
- Medicin (sao)
- Physicians -- United States -- Biography. (LCSH)
- Hospital care -- California -- San Francisco -- Anecdotes. (LCSH)
- Physicians (LCSH)
- Medicine (LCSH)
- Medical care (LCSH)
- Hospital care (LCSH)
- Förenta staterna (sao)
- Förenta staterna -- Kalifornien (sao)
- Förenta staterna -- San Francisco (sao)
Genre
- Självbiografier (saogf)
Personnamn
- Sweet, Victoria.
Institutionsnamn
- Laguna Honda Hospital -- History.
Indexterm och SAB-rubrik
- Lz Biografi: särskilda personer
Klassifikation
- R154.S925 (LCC)
- 610.92 (DDC)
- Lz Sweet, Victoria (kssb/8)
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