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Pember, Phoebe Yates

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University of South Carolina Press 2002

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.782 PEM

Nuila, Ricardo

Summary: "Where does one go without health insurance, when turned away by hospitals, clinics, and doctors? In The People's Hospital, physician Ricardo Nuila's stunning debut, we follow the lives of five uninsured Houstonians as their struggle for survival leads them to a hospital where insurance comes second to genuine care. Each patient eventually lands at Ben Taub, the county hospital where Dr. Nuila...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.11 NUI

Summary: A history of the Newberry, Michigan State Hospital with William A. Decker, M.D., DLFAPA Luce County Historical Society, June 27, 2009.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2009

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.21 HIS
1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: R NEL 362.21 HIS

Brenner, Marie

Summary: "A remarkable depiction of a city in crisis - based on new, behind-the-scenes reporting - that captures the resilience, peril, and compassion of the early days of the Covid pandemic In the spring of 2020, COVID-19 arrived in New York City. Before long, America's largest metropolis was at war against a virus that mercilessly swept through its five boroughs. It became apparent that if Covid...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.1962 BRE

Summary: In his vivid and thought-provoking filmmaking debut, physician Ryan McGarry gives an unprecedented access to America's busiest Emergency Department. Amidst real life-and-death situations, McGarry follows a dedicated team of charismatic young doctors-in-training as they wrestle with both their ideals and the realities of saving lives in a complex and overburdened system.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Music Box Films 2015

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC COD

Steele, Earle E

Summary: From horse-drawn wagon rides to school through five decades of tending majestic trees at the gothic Traverse City State Hospital, Earle Steele colorfully and compassionately shares tales of life and how it was lived at The Asylum, a city-within-a-city that once housed 3000 mentally ill patients.Steele's first affiliation with the hospital was at age nine when his father began employment at the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Denali 2001

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3 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.21 STE
1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL 362.2 STE

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.21 STE

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: MI 362.21 Ste

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 977.4 STE

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI Local Steele

Ryan, Jack.

Summary: Includes updates on many of the performers.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Glendower Media LLC 2012

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.5 RYA

Smith, Craig R.

Summary: "The celebrated cardio-thoracic surgeon at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in New York City, writes an elegant story of life in the land of illness and daily miracles"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2023

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Penney, Darby.

Summary: Foreword / Robert Whitaker -- 1. He took them on their last walk -- 2. Who were the people that went to Willard and why did they go there? --3. How I would have furnished my room (if not for the voices) -- 4. In permanent limbo: she kept asking for dispensation (until her doctor turned into the devil incarnate) -- 5. Children were buried and she knit her life away -- 6. Like a fly in a spider...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bellevue Literary Press 2009

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Rella, Francis J.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton Book Co., Publishers 2003

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.18 REL

Oshinsky, David M.

Summary: A history of the iconic public hospital on New York City's East Side describes the changes in American medicine from 1730 to modern times as it traces the building's origins as an almshouse and pesthouse to its current status as a revered place of first-class care.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2016

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: 362.110 OSH

Decker, William A.

Contents: Construction of the asylum (Building 50) -- The colony system (cottages) -- Mental health statutes -- Governance -- Administrative support services -- Additions and improvements to the asylum -- Farming operations -- Non-patient buildings -- Employee living quarters -- Closing of the hospital : divesiture, demolition, preservation, and restoration -- Causes of mental illness(es) -- Treatment...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Arbutus Press 2010

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Oversize, Call number: 362.21 DEC

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.21 DEC

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI Local Decker

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL RM 362.21 DEC
1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 362.21 DEC

Meyer, Robert (Robert H.)

Summary: "An urgent, on-the-ground account of chaos and compassion from the front lines of COVID-19, from a New York Times journalist and a senior doctor at New York City's busiest emergency room. When Dan Koeppel texted his cousin Robert Meyer, a twenty-year veteran of the emergency room at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, at the beginning of the COVID-19 crisis in the United States, he expected...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.1962 MEY

Moore, Wendy

Summary: "The inspiring story of two pioneering suffragette doctors who ran the only military hospital staffed entirely by women during World War I-and who transformed medicine in the process. A month after war broke out in 1914, doctors Flora Murray and Louisa Garrett Anderson set out for Paris, where they opened a hospital in a luxury hotel and treated hundreds of casualties plucked from France's...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.4 MOO

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: [publisher not identified] 1989

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1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: R NEL 362.21 Echoes

Summary: Dr. William A. Decker, psychiatrist and the last medical supervisor of the Kalamazoo State Hospital, presents a history of the institution which opened its doors in 1848 in order to provide a humane way of treating the mentally ill.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.21 KAL
1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: R NEL 362.21 KAL

Annett, Bruce J.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Oakland County Pioneer & Historical Society 2002

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1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 977.4 ANN

Faust, Timothy

Summary: Single payer healthcare is not complicated: the government pays for all care for all people. It's cheaper than our current model, and most Americans (and their doctors) already want it. So what's the deal with our current healthcare system, and why don't we have something better?

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Melville House Publishing 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.1 FAU

LeClaire, Virginia M

Summary: This volume tells the story of the Traverse City State Hospital Training School for Nurses. The doors opened in 1906 and were closed in 1947. Over four hundred students graduated from this institution. You will meet them and the families from which they came. You will also witness the effects of the political and health concerns of the days on their lives, and learn about the various paths they...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 0000

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.21 LEC
1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL 362.2 LeClaire
1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 362.21 LEC

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Michigan Room, Call number: MI 362.21 LeClaire 2012

Segrest, Mab

Summary: "A look at the racist origins of psychiatry, through the story of the largest mental institution in the world"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.2 SEG

Brod, Doug

Summary: "A veteran music journalist explores how four legendary rock bands--KISS, Cheap Trick, Aerosmith, and Starz--laid the foundation for two diametrically opposed subgenres: hair metal in the '80s and grunge in the '90s"--

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2020

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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 782.42 BRO

Hylton, Antonia

Summary: "On a cold day in March of 1911, officials marched twelve Black men into the heart of a forest in Maryland. Under the supervision of a doctor, the men were forced to clear the land, pour cement, lay bricks, and harvest tobacco. When construction finished, they became the first twelve patients of the state's Hospital for the Negro Insane. For centuries, Black patients have been absent from our...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Legacy Lit 2024

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.2 HYL

Stark, Lizzie.

Summary: "Would you cut out your healthy breasts and ovaries if you thought it might save your life? That's not a theoretical question for journalist Lizzie Stark's relatives, who grapple with the horrific legacy of cancer built into the family DNA. It is a BRCA mutation that has robbed most of her female relatives of breasts, ovaries, peace of mind, or life itself. In Pandora's DNA, Stark uses her...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 2014

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.1 STA

Fisher, Thomas

Summary: "Thomas Fisher was raised on the South Side of Chicago and even as a kid understood how close death could feel-he came from a family of pioneering doctors who believed in staying in the community, but on those streets he saw just how vulnerable Black bodies could be. Determined to follow his family's legacy, Fisher studied public health at Dartmouth and Harvard, then returned to the University...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: One World 2022

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: 362.1089 FIS

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.1089 FIS

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