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…