God'S Hotel: A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine [Audiobook] download free by Victoria Sweet
- Listen audiobook: God'S Hotel: A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine
- Author: Victoria Sweet
- Release date: 2013/8/29
- Publisher: PENGUIN PUTNAM INC
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Biography
- ISBN: 9781594486548
- Rating: 9.78 of 10
- Votes: 672
- Review by: Dash Sales
- Review rating: 9.35 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/10/20
- Duration: 5H27M8S in 256 kbps (86.4 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-09-25
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: WAV, MP3, WMA Lossless, MPEG4, FLAC, WMA, OPUS (compression LZMA, CAB, RAR, ARJ, ZIP)
- Total pages original book: 432
- Includes a PDF summary of 34 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 26M42S (6.8 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: Victoria Sweet's new book, SLOW MEDICINE, is on sale now! For readers of Paul Kalanithi's When Breath Becomes Air, 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.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Medicine, Public Health & Preventive Medicine, Popular Medicine & Health, Medical Profession, Biography: Science, Technology & Engineering
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- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 17.58 USD
- Dimensions: 137x206x25mm
- Weight: 318g
- Printed by: Riverhead Books,U.S.
- Published in: New York, United States
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