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God's Hotel: A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine
by Sweet, Victoria
- Used
- near fine
- Paperback
- Condition
- Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1594486549
- ISBN 13
- 9781594486548
- Seller
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Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada
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About This Item
Riverhead Books. Near Fine. 2013. Softcover. 1594486549 . Tight crisp unmarked book. ; 8.5 X 5.5 X 1.0 inches; 432 pages .
Synopsis
A medical “page-turner” that traces one doctor’s “remarkable journey to the essence of medicine” ( The San Francisco Chronicle ). San Francisco’s Laguna Honda Hospital is the last almshouse in the country, a descendant of the Hôtel-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, relatively low-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 the body and the soul.
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- Bookseller
- B-Line Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 51760
- Title
- God's Hotel: A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine
- Author
- Sweet, Victoria
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1594486549
- ISBN 13
- 9781594486548
- Publisher
- Riverhead Books
- Place of Publication
- U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 2013
- Keywords
- 1594486549
- Bookseller catalogs
- Health;
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About the Seller
B-Line Books
Biblio member since 2003
Amherst, Nova Scotia
About B-Line Books
B-Line Books is an internet business operating from my large home in Amherst, Nova Scotia. I am a retired English teacher with a lifetime of gathered books for sale. Presently, about 24,000 books in 90 categories are listed with an emphasis in the humanities. I look for books I am interested in myself, and feel that most of the inventory is of high quality. See for yourself.
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- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
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