God's hotel : a doctor, a hospital, and a pilgrimage to the heart of medicine
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New York : Riverhead Books, 2012.
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Richland Park - Adult Non-Fiction
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Published
New York : Riverhead Books, 2012.
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Book
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372 pages : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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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.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Sweet, V. (2012). God's hotel: a doctor, a hospital, and a pilgrimage to the heart of medicine . Riverhead Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Sweet, Victoria. 2012. God's Hotel: A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine. Riverhead Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Sweet, Victoria. God's Hotel: A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine Riverhead Books, 2012.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Sweet, Victoria. God's Hotel: A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine Riverhead Books, 2012.
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