County: Life, Death, and Politics at Chicago's Public Hospital

"Named by the "Wall Street Journal "as one of the five best health books of 2011!
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 health care 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 a...