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100	1		_aStandefer, Katherine E., _d1985- _eauthor. _931681
245	1	0	_aLightning flowers : _bmy journey to uncover the cost of saving a life / _cKatherine E. Standefer.
246	3	0	_aMy journey to uncover the cost of saving a life
250			_aFirst edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bLittle, Brown Spark, an imprint of Little, Brown and Company, _c2020.
264		4	_c©2020
300			_avii, 273 pages ; _c25 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
500			_aIncludes index.
505	0		_aPrologue: Tucson, Arizona, 2012 -- The revealing -- The dismantling -- Epilogue.
520			_a"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"-- _cProvided by publisher.
600	1	0	_aStandefer, Katherine E., _d1985- _xHealth. _931682
650		0	_aMedical instruments and apparatus _xQuality control. _931683
650		0	_aMedical technology _xMoral and ethical aspects. _931684
650		7	_aHealth. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst00952743
650		7	_aMedical instruments and apparatus _xQuality control. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01014224 _931683
650		7	_aMedical technology _xMoral and ethical aspects. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01014760 _931684
655		7	_aAutobiographies. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01919894 _99941
655		7	_aAutobiographies. _2lcgft _99941
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