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FIVE DAYS AT MEMORIAL: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital.
de Fink, Sheri
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- Very near fine in a like dustjacket./like
- ISBN 10
- 0307718964
- ISBN 13
- 9780307718969
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New York:: Crown,, (2013). SIGNED hardcover -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.. 5th printing. The culmination of six years of reporting, this book by a Pulitzer Prize winner is a "landmark investigation of patient deaths at a New Orleans hospital ravaged by Hurricane Katrina - and her suspenseful portrayal of the quest for truth and justice. . .After Katrina struck and the floodwaters rose, the power failed, and the heat climbed, exhausted caregivers chose to designate certain patients last for rescue. Months later, several health professionals faced criminal allegations that they deliberately injected numerous patients with drugs to hasten their deaths." Winner of many awards, including the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, the 2014 J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize, the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Ridenhour Book Prize, and more. Named an ALA Notable Book and one of the New York Timess Best Ten Books of the Year. INSCRIBED and dated in 2014 on the title page by Fink, and uncommon thus. Notes, index. xviii, 558 pp. Full color illustrated endpapers.
Sinopsis
SHERI FINK'S reporting has won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Magazine Award, and the Overseas Press Club Lowell Thomas Award, among other journalism prizes. Most recently, her coverage of Hurricanes Sandy and Isaac received the Mike Berger Award from Columbia University and the Beat Reporting Award from the Association of Healthcare Journalists. Fink, a former relief worker in disaster and conflict zones, received her MD and PhD from Stanford University. Her first book, War Hospital , is about medical professionals under siege during the genocide in Srebrenica, Bosnia-Herzegovina.
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- Título
- FIVE DAYS AT MEMORIAL: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital.
- Autor
- Fink, Sheri
- Formato/Encuadernación
- SIGNED hardcover -
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- like
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- ISBN 10
- 0307718964
- ISBN 13
- 9780307718969
- Editorial
- Crown,
- Lugar de publicación
- New York:
- Fecha de publicación
- (2013)
- Palabras clave
- hurricane katrina, new orleans, National Book Critics Circle Award, J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Medicine, health and the medical profession;
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