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Lightning Flowers - My Journey to Uncover the Cost of Saving a Life (Hardcover)
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Lightning Flowers - My Journey to Uncover the Cost of Saving a Life (Hardcover)
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Lightning Flowers 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 technology
possible. What if a lifesaving medical device causes loss of life
along its supply chain? That's the question Katherine E. Standefer
finds herself asking one night after being suddenly shocked by her
implanted cardiac defibrillator. 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, 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. Deeply personal and sharply
reported, Lightning Flowers takes a hard look at technological
mythos, healthcare, and our cultural relationship to medical
technology, raising important questions about our obligations to
one another, and the cost of saving one life.
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