God's hotel: a doctor, a hospital, and a pilgrimage to the heart of medicine
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Published:
New York : Riverhead Books, 2013.
Format:
Book
Edition:
First Riverhead trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc:
x, 416 pages ; 21 cm
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781594486548, 9781594488436, 1594488436, 1594486549, 9781594486548 (pbk.)
Notes
General Note
Copyright date 2012.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Description
"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.
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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.
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APA Citation (style guide)
Sweet, V. (2013). God's hotel: a doctor, a hospital, and a pilgrimage to the heart of medicine. First Riverhead trade paperback edition. New York, Riverhead Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Sweet, Victoria. 2013. God's Hotel: A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine. New York, Riverhead Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Sweet, Victoria, God's Hotel: A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine. New York, Riverhead Books, 2013.
MLA Citation (style guide)Sweet, Victoria. God's Hotel: A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine. First Riverhead trade paperback edition. New York, Riverhead Books, 2013.
Note! Citation formats are based on standards as of July 2022. Citations contain only title, author, edition, publisher, and year published. Citations should be used as a guideline and should be double checked for accuracy.
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