Five days at Memorial : life and death in a storm-ravaged hospital
Record details
- ISBN: 0307718980 (ebk.)
- ISBN: 9780307718983 (ebook)
- ISBN: 0307718964 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 9780307718969 (hardcover)
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Physical Description:
xviii, 558 pages : map ; 25 cm
print - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Crown Publishers, [2013]
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Deadly choices -- Reckoning. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Kirtland Community College Library | RA 975 .D57 F56 2013 | 30775305472988 | General Collection | Available | - |
Author Notes
Five Days at Memorial : Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
Sheri Fink is an American journalist and a reporter on subjects covering health, medicine and science. Her articles appeared in a number of high profiled publications such as the New York Times, Discover and Scientific American. She is a 1990 graduate of the University of Michigan and received her Ph D and MD from Stanford University in 1998 and 1999. Dr. Fink is a currently a senior fellow with Harvard Humanitarian Initiative and a staff reporter at ProPublica in New York. On April 12, 2010, she was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting for an article published by ProPublica website. The winning article was about the deadly choices faced at one New Orleans hospital during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. The article also made her a finalist for the 2010 Michael Kelly Award. She also won a 2010 National Magazine Award for Reporting for the article. In 2015 she won a PEN Literary Award for her title Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital, as the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction. (Bowker Author Biography)