David Ansell book signing 8/4 @ The Book Cellar Chicago

We are thrilled to welcome Dr. David Ansell and his book County: Life, Death, and Politics at Chicago's Public Hospital. The book is a social history of the Cook County hospital, His social history of the hospital, which details his own time on the wards — and examines health care in America from the perspective of the uninsured.

4736-38 N Lincoln Ave

Chicago

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Illinois

60625

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David Ansell book signing 6/22 @ 57th Street Books Chicago

County is the amazing tale of one of America's oldest and most unusual urban public hospitals. From its inception as a "Poor House" dispensing free medical care to indigents, Chicago's Cook County Hospital has been both a renowned teaching hospital and the healthcare provider of last resort for the city's uninsured. County covers more than thirty years of its history, beginning in the late 1970s when the author began his internship, to the "Final Rounds" when hundreds of former trainees gathered to bid the enormous iconic Victorian hospital building an emotional farewell when it was closed to make way for a new facility. Ansell writes of the hundreds of doctors who went through the rigorous training process with him, sharing his vision of saving the world and of resurrecting a hospital in critical condition. County is about people, from Ansell's mentors, including the legendary Quentin Young, to the multitude of patients whom he and County's medical staff labored to diagnose and heal. It is a story about politics, from contentious union strikes to battles against "patient dumping", and public health, depicting the AIDS crisis and the opening of County's HIV/AIDS clinic, the first in the city. Finally, it is about an idealistic young man's medical education in urban America, a coming-of-age story set against a backdrop of race, segregation and poverty.

Wednesday, June 22nd at 6pm 57th Street Books, 1301 E. 57th Street

57th Street Books
1301 E. 57th Street
Chicago, Illinois
60637-1507
773-684-1300
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David Ansell book signing 6/17 @ The Book Stall Winnetka

In his book, County: Life, Death and Politics at Chicago's Public Hospital, Dr. David Anselldocuments the history of Chicago's Cook County Hospital, one of America's oldest and most unusual urban hospitals. From it's inception as a "poor house" dispensing free medical care to indigents, County has been both a renowned teaching hospital and the healthcare provider of last resort for the city's uninsured. Friday, June 17th - 6:30 pm at The Book Stall

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