Author: Elizabeth Harding (wife of John Harding.)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 84
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Transplanted Flowers, Or Memoirs of Mrs. Rumpff, Daughter of John Jacob Astor and the Duchess of de Broglie, Daughter of Madame de Staël
Author: BairdTransplanted Flowers; Or, Memoirs of Mrs. Rumpff, Daughter of John Jacob Astor, Esq., and the Duchess de Broglie, Daughter of Madame de Staël
Author: Robert BairdLightning Flowers
Author: Katherine E. StandeferPublisher: Little, Brown Spark
ISBN: 0316450359
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
This "utterly spectacular" book weighs the impact modern medical technology has had on the author's life against the social and environmental costs inevitably incurred by the mining that makes such innovation possible (Rachel Louise Snyder, author of No Visible Bruises). What if a lifesaving medical device causes loss of life along its supply chain? That's the question Katherine E. Standefer finds herself asking one night after being suddenly shocked by her implanted cardiac defibrillator. In this gripping, intimate memoir about health, illness, and the invisible reverberating effects of our medical system, Standefer recounts the astonishing true story of the rare diagnosis that upended her rugged life in the mountains of Wyoming and sent her tumbling into a fraught maze of cardiology units, dramatic surgeries, and slow, painful recoveries. As her life increasingly comes to revolve around the internal defibrillator freshly wired into her heart, she becomes consumed with questions about the supply chain that allows such an ostensibly miraculous device to exist. So she sets out to trace its materials back to their roots. From the sterile labs of a medical device manufacturer in southern California to the tantalum and tin mines seized by armed groups in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to a nickel and cobalt mine carved out of endemic Madagascar jungle, Lightning Flowers takes us on a global reckoning with the social and environmental costs of a technology that promises to be lifesaving but is, in fact, much more complicated. Deeply personal and sharply reported, Lightning Flowers takes a hard look at technological mythos, healthcare, and our cultural relationship to medical technology, raising important questions about our obligations to one another, and the cost of saving one life.
TRANSPLANTED From 110 Degrees in the Shade to 10 Degrees Below Zero in the Sun
Author: Shakuntala RajagopalPublisher: Outskirts Press
ISBN: 1977212034
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
My memoir named Transplanted, from 110° F in the Shade to 10° F in the Sun, recounts my experiences as a young doctor of 23 years old who left the South Indian tropical town, Thiruananthapuram, and got dropped into a ten degrees frigid Chicago winter forty-eight hours later. Despite the strange foods I had to adjust to, the strange clothes that I needed to survive the cold, and even the strangeness of the English language (which I had hitherto believed I was well versed in,) I was able to mold my life and likes, and establish myself as a successful pathologist, a dedicated wife, strong yet kind and loving mother and grandmother, and now a Matriarch to an extended family of fifty two in Chicagoland. I can do it attitude, an open mind and willingness to grow, and the vigor with which I faced my challenges made me successful in accepting and assimilating the American heritage for my own. How I contributed to the melting pot of America while becoming part of it, is itself a story worth reading. Anybody displaced from a place of comfort, whether 100 miles or 10,000 miles, anyone seeking guidance to overcome adversities, and anyone interested in "the Immigrant story" will find my book helpful to survive adversity and prosper in a strange land or a strange town.
The American Quarterly Register
Author: Quarterly register and journal of the American education society [afterw.] The American quarterly register, conducted by E. Cornelius [and others].
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Author: American education societyPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Backbiting
Author: Charlotte ElizabethPublisher:
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Category : Christian life
Languages : en
Pages : 156
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The Voice of the Church One
Author: Jean Henri Merle d'AubignéPublisher:
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Category : Christianity
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
Alphabetical Catalogue of the Library of Congress
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 924
Book Description
A Protestant Memorial
Author: Thomas Hartwell HornePublisher:
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Category : Protestantism
Languages : en
Pages : 182
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