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

We are thrilled to welcome Dr. David Ansell and his book County: Life, Death, and Politics at Chicago's Public Hospital. The book is a social history of the Cook County hospital, His social history of the hospital, which details his own time on the wards — and examines health care in America from the perspective of the uninsured.

For more information about this best-selling, incisive consideration of Chicago's hospitals, check out this NPR article and join us on the 4th!