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Lightning Flowers : My Journey to Uncover the Cost of Saving a Life by Katherine E. Standefer (2020, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherLittle Brown & Company
ISBN-100316450367
ISBN-139780316450362
eBay Product ID (ePID)12038281774
Product Key Features
Book TitleLightning Flowers : My Journey to Uncover the Cost of Saving Alife
Number of Pages288 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2020
TopicEthics, Personal Memoirs
GenreBiography & Autobiography, Medical
AuthorKatherine E. Standefer
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.4 in
Item Weight17.1 Oz
Item Length9.6 in
Item Width6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Reviews"In Lightning Flowers , Katherine E. Standefer offers a full accounting of the cost of a single life, and it is nothing short of astonishing. She travels, literally, to both the brink of death and the edge of the world to discover exactly what it means to live. Her courage is palpable, on the page and in life. This book is utterly spectacular."-- Rachel Louise Snyder, author of No Visible Bruises and What We've Lost is Nothing
Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal610.28
SynopsisThis "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.
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