Hospitals

A chapbook-style collection of poems by Chicago-based Whitney Scott. Topics include AIDS, hospitalization and dealing with the loss of loved ones. Designed by Suzanne Oliver.

This is a story of medicine as it moved from the pioneer care-giving era of the early 1800s to the sophisticated health settings of today. It is the story of the many colorful, caring physicians whose vision helped spawn new ways to educate caregivers and new methods to heal the sick...and of the generations of dedicated health professionals and civic leaders who, over the past 150 year, shaped one of the nation's leading academic health centers. It is the story of Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center.

&quot;Bleeding Sheep is a quarterly magazine of poetry, fiction, arts, images and culture published in Chicago.&quot;<br />

"The stories presented here tell tales of a new Chicago, a Chicago that, like the Scott Mutter montage that fronts this book, is made up of diverse images that suggest new ways of seeing. They provide alternative interpretations of life in the city. What you will find in this collection is a a multi-cultural neighborhood in print, a neighborhood which has yet to surface on Chicago streets, one which is perhaps still years away in a city that touts its culturally plural make-up while still enforcing rigid boundaries between segregated neighborhoods. Murder by industrial pollution (often masked by self-abuse), racism, homophobia, the disintegration of family life, the struggle for control of one's own body and mind, the troubles facing a growing elderly population, the subjugation of minority cultures to the rich, the white, the male, are all issues confronted by the writers of these stories. They speak through a range of voices, creating a new, urgent sense of Chicago Realism. These storytellers provide testimony to a new Chicago, a Chicago that while steeped in American tradition challenges the narrow boundaries of its stereotype. They speak to a changing America, an America that has awakened from decades of a false, prosperity-driven revelry with a reality hangover. They speak of an America that must now begin to turn its attention to the social and environmental problems it has too long ignored." - From the back cover