{"product_id":"gods-hotel-victoria-sweet-9781594486548","title":"God's Hotel: A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eVictoria Sweet's new book, SLOW MEDICINE, is on sale now \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor readers of Paul Kalanithi's \u003ci\u003eWhen Breath Becomes Air, \u003c\/i\u003ea medical \"page-turner\" that traces one doctor's \"remarkable journey to the essence of medicine\" (\u003ci\u003eThe San Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e). \u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eSan Francisco's Laguna Honda Hospital is the last almshouse in the country, a descendant of the H tel-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.\u003cbr\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eGod's Hotel \u003c\/i\u003etells 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Victoria Sweet\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1594486549\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781594486548\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Riverhead Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/02\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 432\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.86lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.10h x 5.40w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChristian Century\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2013 pg. 49\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooks \u0026amp; Culture\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2013 pg. 9","brand":"Victoria Sweet","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44049219518719,"sku":"9781594486548","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_3a045078-1e5c-4edd-9413-dd51248c711d.jpg?v=1685000333","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/gods-hotel-victoria-sweet-9781594486548","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}