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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Standefer, Katherine E., 1985- author.     Subjects     Standefer, Katherine E., 1985- -- Health.     Medical technology -- Environmental aspects.     Medical technology -- Moral and ethical aspects.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Standefer, Katherine E., 1985- author.       by title:      Lightning flowers : ...         MARC Display

Lightning flowers : my journey to uncover the cost of saving a life / Katherine E. Standefer. by Standefer, Katherine E., 1985- author. New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2021. Subjects Standefer, Katherine E., 1985- -- Health.   Medical technology -- Environmental aspects.   Medical technology -- Moral and ethical aspects. ISBN:  9780316450362 (hardback) 0316450367 Description:  1 volume ; 24 cm Requests:  0 Summary:  "... 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.... "--Amazon.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Business, Science & Technology 610.28 St Checked In Add Copy to MyList Mililani Public Library Adult Nonfiction 610.28 St Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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