WHERE NIGHT IS DAY: THE WORLD OF THE ICU
Book ID/图书代码： 03360013B61591
English Summary/英文概要： "There is no night in the ICU. There is day, lesser day, then day again. There are rhythms. Every twelve hours: shift change. Report: first all together in the big room, then at the bedside, nurse to nurse. Morning rounds. A group of doctors moves slowly through the unit like a harrow through a field. At each room, like a game, a different one rotates into the center. They leave behind a trail of new orders. Wean, extubate, titrate, start this, stop that, scan, film, scope. The steep hill the patient is asked to climb. Can you breathe on your own? Can you wake up? Can you live?"—from Where Night Is Day
Where Night Is Day is a nonfiction narrative grounded in the day-by-day, hour-by-hour rhythms of an ICU in a teaching hospital in the heart of New Mexico. It takes place over a thirteen-week period, the time of the average rotation of residents through the ICU. It begins in September and ends at Christmas. It is the story of patients and families, suddenly faced with critical illness, who find themselves in the ICU. It describes how they navigate through it and find their way. James Kelly is a sensitive witness to the quiet courage and resourcefulness of ordinary people.
Kelly leads the reader into a parallel world: the world of illness. This world, invisible but not hidden, not articulated by but known by the ill, does not readily offer itself to our understanding. In this context, Kelly reflects on the nature of medicine and nursing, on how doctors and nurses see themselves and how they see each other. Drawing on the words of medical historians, doctor-writers, and nursing scholars, Kelly examines the relationship of professional and lay observers to the meaning of illness, empathy, caring, and the silence of suffering. Kelly offers up an intimate portrait of the ICU and its inhabitants.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 这本书中有这么一段描写：“在重症监护室里没有夜晚。只有白天，白天一点点过去，接着又是一个白天。医生的生活如此循环往复。每12个小时换班一次。写报告：首先全体医生在一起集中讨论病人的病情，接着在床边，一对一地诊疗病情、护理病人。早上又开始了。一群医生在病房间缓慢地穿梭如同一把耙子在田地里归拢谷物。他们要完成一整套检查工作。放弃，拔下管子，打点滴等等。你能自主呼吸吗？你能起床走两步吗？”
《昼夜奋战的重症监护室：带你走进重症监护室医生的生活》这本书并不是作者虚构的，它记叙了美国新墨西哥州市中心一家附属医院里的重症监护室医生们每天的真实生活。本书作者也是一名重症监护室的医生，他进行了为期13周的观察。周期从九月份到圣诞节结束。这是一段病人们的故事，重大疾病突然降临在这些病人身上，他们发现自己身处重症监护室里。本书描述了他们如何在病痛中找到生活的希望并且勇敢地生活下去。James Kelly敏感地捕捉到普通人身上面对逆境的勇气以及智慧。
Kelly将读者们带到另一个世界：疾病的世界。在重症监护室的世界里，Kelly思考了医药和护理的本质、医生们和护士们如何看待自己以及他们如何看待对方。他援引了医药历史学家，医生作者以及护理专家的亲口诉说，帮读者们领悟了疾病的意义。本书详细描写了重症监护室病人们的故事。(Susie)
Awards/获奖情况："James Kelly’s ICU is a relentless and claustrophobic space where all the stories begin in the middle and only some have endings. His book is an exhilarating and humbling depiction of nursing in the twenty-first century."—Arthur W. Frank, author of The Wounded Storyteller: Body, Illness, and Ethics and Letting Stories Breathe: A Socio-Narratology
"James Kelly provides an exceptionally thoughtful narrative of the modern intensive care unit. He characterizes the rhythms of the ICU and captures odd juxtapositions of the deeply emotional and highly technical, while he explores the complex history and unspoken social hierarchy of American hospitals. Through the experience of caring for critically ill patients and their families, he ultimately delivers a moving meditation on life and death."—Peter Clardy, MD, Director, Medical Intensive Care, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School
"Where Night Is Day will be of interest to doctors, nurses, medical and nursing students, patients, and those interested in the organization of health care delivery. This excellent and compelling book marries theory to observation. James Kelly has created an intriguing presentation of social science thought about the health professions and illness, the socialization process of medical and nursing students, a clinical ethnographic study of life in an ICU, and an auto-ethnography."—Brian Hodges, MD, PhD, FRCPC, University of Toronto, coeditor of The Question of Competence: Reconsidering Medical Education in the Twenty-First Century
About the Author/作者介绍： James Kelly是一名注册护士，她在拉芙莱斯女子医院从事重症监护室里的急救护理工作，该医院位于新墨西哥州阿尔伯克基市。James Kelly works in critical care as an RN in the ICU at Lovelace Women’s Hospital in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Format:HARDCOVER
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