{"product_id":"sweet-victoria-god-s-hotel-9781594486548","title":"God's Hotel","description":"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.","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Used - good","offer_id":53406938497366,"sku":"9781594486548-G","price":5.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/5829\/5382\/files\/product_image_9781594486548_1.jpg?v=1778118043","url":"https:\/\/www.momoxbooks.com\/products\/sweet-victoria-god-s-hotel-9781594486548","provider":"momoxbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}