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Mukerjee focuses include border, police, and prison abolition as well as racial, economic, and healthcare justice for people with substance use disorders and LGBTQIA+ people living with HIV in refugee and migrant communities.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Ronica Mukerjee \/ Paperback \/ English","offer_id":47280887496861,"sku":"9798889841401","price":39.34,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_fc0b815d-a1ec-49d5-8148-64bca596065c.jpg?v=1759923667"},{"product_id":"five-days-at-memorial-life-and-death-in-a-storm-ravaged-hospital-9780307718976","title":"Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES \u003c\/i\u003eBESTSELLER - The award-winning book that inspired an Apple Original series from Apple TV+ - A landmark investigation of patient deaths at a New Orleans hospital ravaged by Hurricane Katrina--and the suspenseful portrayal of the quest for truth and justice--from a Pulitzer Prize-winning physician and reporter \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"An amazing tale, as inexorable as a Greek tragedy and as gripping as a whodunit.\"--\u003ci\u003eDallas Morning News\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eA \u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews \u003c\/i\u003eBest Nonfiction Book of the Century\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAfter Hurricane Katrina struck and power failed, amid rising floodwaters and heat, exhausted staff at Memorial Medical Center designated certain patients last for rescue. 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