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Lightning Flowers: My Journey to Uncover the Cost of Saving a Life

byKatherine Standefer

This "utterly spectacular" book weighs the impact modern medical technology has had on the author’s life against the social and environmental costs inevitably incurred by the mining that makes such innovation possible (Rachel Louise Snyder, author of No Visible Bruises). The research behind Lightning Flowers draws together biographical detail, personal testimony, and historical context to show how the central story changed over time. The result links the my journey to uncover the cost of saving a life with debates in biography & autobiography and science, showing where public institutions and private experience meet.

Publisher

Little, Brown Spark

Publication date

Nov 10, 2020

Format

Print edition

Pages

288

ISBN

9780316450362