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GOD'S HOTEL: A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine.
by Sweet, Victoria
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near fine in near fine dust jacket (upper corners bumped) Uncommon signed. /near fine
- ISBN 10
- 1594488436
- ISBN 13
- 9781594488436
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New York:: Riverhead Books,, 2012.. SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Near fine in near fine dust jacket (upper corners bumped) Uncommon signed. . First printing. An account of the twenty years Sweet spent at San Francisco's Laguna Honda Hospital, the last almshouse in the country, a descendant of the Hotel-Dieu (GodÕs hotel) that cared for the sick in the Middle Ages. "Victoria Sweet writes beautifully about the enormous richness of life at Laguna Honda, the chronic care hospital where she has spent the last twenty years, and the intense sense of place and community that binds patients and staff there. Such community in the medical world is vanishingly rare now, and Laguna Honda may be the last of its kind... God's Hotel is a most important book which raises fundamental questions about the nature of medicine in our time. It should be required reading for anyone interested in the 'business' of healthcare Ð and especially those interested in the humanity of healthcare." (Oliver Sacks, M.D.) SIGNED on the title page. Notes. 372 pp.
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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- Title
- GOD'S HOTEL: A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine.
- Author
- Sweet, Victoria
- Format/Binding
- SIGNED hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine in near fine dust jacket (upper corners bumped) Uncommon signed.
- Jacket Condition
- near fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1594488436
- ISBN 13
- 9781594488436
- Publisher
- Riverhead Books,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- 2012.
- Keywords
- san francisco, laguna honda hospital,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Medicine, health and the medical profession;
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