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The nurse's secret / by Skenandore, Amanda,author.;
Includes bibliographical references.The Alienist meets The Light of Luna Park in a fascinating historical novel based on the little-known story of America's first nursing school, as a young female grifter in 1880s New York evades the police by conning her way into Bellevue Hospital's training school for nurses ... In the slums of 1880s New York, Una Kelly has grown up to be a rough-and-tumble grifter, able to filch a pocketbook in five seconds flat. But when another con-woman pins her for a murder she didn't commit, Una is forced to flee. Running from the police, Una lies her way into an unlikely refuge: the nursing school at Bellevue Hospital. Based on Florence Nightingale's nursing principles, Bellevue is the first school of its kind in the country. Where once nurses were assumed to be ignorant and unskilled, Bellevue prizes discipline, intellect, and moral character, and only young women of good breeding need apply. At first, Una balks at her prim classmates and the doctors' endless commands. Yet life on the streets has prepared her for the horrors of injury and disease found on the wards, and she slowly gains friendship and self-respect. Just as she finds her footing, Una's suspicions about a patient's death put her at risk of exposure, and will force her to choose between her instinct for self-preservation, and exposing her identity in order to save others. Amanda Skenandore brings her medical expertise to a page-turning story that explores the evolution of modern nursing-including the grisly realities of nineteenth-century medicine -- as seen through the eyes of an intriguing and dynamic heroine.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; Bellevue Hospital. Training School for Nurses; Nursing; Swindlers and swindling;
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Light enough to float / by Seal, Lauren,author.;
"The story of a teenage girl's recovery, in a psychiatric hospital, from anorexia, told in poetry"--
Subjects: Young adult fiction.; Novels in verse.; Anorexia nervosa; Anorexia nervosa; Psychiatric hospital patients; Psychiatric hospitals; Psychotherapy; Teenage girls; Anorexia nervosa; Anorexia nervosa; Psychiatric hospital patients; Psychiatric hospitals; Psychotherapy; Teenage girls;
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The last asylum : a memoir of madness in our times / by Taylor, Barbara,1950-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Taylor, Barbara, 1950-; Friern Hospital; Mentally ill women; Psychiatric hospital patients; Psychiatric hospitals; Psychoanalysis;
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The woman in white / by Collins, Wilkie,1824-1889,author.; Sutherland, John,1938-editor,writer of introduction.;
Includes bibliographical references.Walter Hartright's mysterious midnight encounter with the woman in white draws him into a vortex of crime, poison, kidnapping, & international intrigue. In this new edition, John Sutherland examines Collins's contribution to Victorian fiction, traces his practices as a creator of plot, & provides a chronology of the novel's complicated events.
Subjects: Gothic fiction.; Romance fiction.; Mentally ill; Psychiatric hospital patients; Young women; Inheritance and succession; Swindlers and swindling; Fraud; Sisters;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The pull of the stars : a novel / by Donoghue, Emma,1969-author.;
A novel set in 1918 Dublin offers a three-day look at a maternity ward during the height of the Great Flu pandemic.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Medical personnel; Hospitals; Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919;
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Take back the tray : revolutionizing food in hospitals, schools, and other institutions / by Maharaj, Joshna,author.;
Includes bibliographical references."Good food generally doesn't arrive on a tray: hospital food is famously ridiculed, chronic student hunger is deemed a rite of passage, and prison meals are considered part of the punishment. But Chef Joshna Maharaj knows that institutional kitchens have the ability to produce good, nourishing food, because she's been making it happen over the past 14 years. She's served meals to people who'd otherwise go hungry, baked fresh scones for maternity ward mothers, and dished out wholesome, scratch-made soups to stressed-out undergrads. She's determined to bring health, humanity, and hospitality back to institutional food while also building sustainability, supporting the local economy, and reinvigorating the work of frontline staff. Take Back the Tray is part manifesto, part memoir from the trenches, and a blueprint for reclaiming control from corporations and brutal bottom lines. Maharaj reconnects food with health, wellness, education, and rehabilitation in a way that serves people, not just budgets, and proves change is possible with honest, sustained commitment on all levels, from government right down to the person sorting the trash. The need is clear, the time is now, and this revolution is delicious."-- Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Recipes.; Maharaj, Joshna; Food service.; Hospitals; Universities and colleges; Food service employees;
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Medicine unbundled : a journey through the minefields of indigenous health care / by Geddes, Gary,1940-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."An investigative exploration of the separate "Indian hospitals" that existed in Canada for many decades, told through memoir, archival research, and interviews with survivors."--
Subjects: Discrimination in medical care; Hospitals; Native peoples; Native peoples; Native peoples;
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The foundling : a novel / by Leary, Ann,author.;
In 1927, when eighteen-year-old Mary Engle, while working at an institution for mentally disabled women, learns that a girl from her childhood orphanage is an inmate, who begs Mary to help her escape, it forces Mary to make a terrible choice with life-altering consquences.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; Eugenics; Mentally ill women; Psychiatric hospitals;
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Nurse Jackie. [videorecording] / by Cannavale, Bobby.; Falco, Edie.; Alliance Atlantis Vivafilm.; Alliance Films.; Lions Gate Television (Firm);
Disc 1. Kettle-kettle-black-black -- Disneyland sucks -- The wall -- Slow growing monsters.Disc 2. One-armed Jacks -- No-kimono-zone -- Day of the iguana -- Chaud & froid.Disc 3. Are those feathers -- Handle your scandal.Edie Falco, Bobby Cannavale.Jackie comes to realize that both karma and sobriety can be a bitch. In addition to finally confronting her addiction, Jackie's street smarts and sardonic wit are tested even further by an ambitious new hospital administrator (Bobby Cannavale), determined to run a tight ship and keep Jackie in line.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD, widescreen presentation ; 2.0 Dolby Digital, 5.1 Dolby Digital.
Subjects: Chronic pain in women; Dark comedy television programs.; Hospitals; Hospitals; Medical television programs.; Nurses; Nurses; Television comedies.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.;
© c2013., Distributed by Alliance Films,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Nurse Jackie. [videorecording] / by Cannavale, Bobby.; Facinelli, Peter,1973-; Falco, Edie.; Smith, Anna Deavere.; Entertainment One (Firm : Canada); Lions Gate Television (Firm); Showtime Networks.;
Peter Facinelli, Edie Falco, Anna Deavere Smith, Bobby Cannavale, Eve Best, Merritt Wever, Paul Schulze.The show returns for a fifth season. After leaving rehab early, Jackie finds sobriety and relative happiness, but that is the calm before the storm. With her marriage coming to an end, a careless accident sends Jackie to her own all Saints Hospital for emergency care. While recovering, she meets NYC policeman Frank Verelli, whose flirtatious advances may lead Jackie into uncharted territory: dating.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD, widescreen; 2.0 Dolby Digital; 5.1 Dolby Digital.
Subjects: Chronic pain in women; Dark comedy television programs.; Hospitals; Hospitals; Medical television programs.; Nurses; Nurses; Television comedies.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.;
© c2014., Showtime Networks Inc. ; Distributed by Entertainment One,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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