More Than A Place
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Lisa A. Dubois — More Than a Place: The Origins of a Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt • ISBN: 978-157736-387-3 • $26.95 • 288 pages • hardcover • 6x9 • Imprint PHP Description: When Vanderbilt University Hospital embedded a children's hospital within its new medical building in 1980, it represented a victory for those who had fought to establish a world-class children's hospital in Nashville, Tennessee. It took the combined efforts of the Junior League of Nashville, the Council of Jewish Women, other community leaders, parents, dedicated medical professionals, and even a state Supreme Court case more than half a century to make Vanderbilt Children's Hospital a reality. Along with disease and pain, the hospital’s advocates battled racism, religious differences, politicians, academics, lawsuits, and hospital administration to ensure that children in middle Tennessee were served by a medical facility dedicated to them. Engagingly written and rich in historic detail, More Than a Place traces the development of the children’s hospital from its genesis as the Junior League Home for Crippled Children to its establishment as a premiere children’s hospital. Along the way, champions emerged: forerunners like Dr. George Holcomb, who crusaded for a separate children’s facility; visionaries like Dr. David Karzon, who made the dream come true with his hospital-within-a-hospital; and advocates like the Friends of Children’s Hospital, who tirelessly insisted that hospital administrators tailor the medical facility to the needs of children and their families. Today, the successor to that first children’s hospital, the top-ranked Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt, continues the dedication to children and their families started so long ago. More than bricks, more than hospital beds, and more than the legacy of one institution or individual, Vanderbilt’s Children’s Hospital has a heritage and future rooted in More Than a Place. LISA A. DUBOIS earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a master’s degree in biomedical communications from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. A native of Greenville, South Carolina, DuBois has been an award-winning freelance writer for more than twenty years. A former Nashville Banner reporter, DuBois has penned stories for newspapers, magazines, radio, and video. Her work has appeared in the Tennessean and Nashville Scene newspapers, and in such magazines as Variety, Vanderbilt Magazine, Vanderbilt Business, Vanderbilt Lawyer, and Lens. DuBois resides with her husband and their two children in Nashville, Tennessee. More Than a Place is her first book. BACK COVER COMMENTS: "More Than a Place is a beautifully written story about the power of conviction and perseverance to bring diverse communities, organizations, and personalities together to do the right thing for our most vulnerable—the children. Just as illustrated by the interconnected struggles for women’s suffrage and civil rights, a special hospital for children at Vanderbilt was an idea whose time had come." Barney S. Graham, MD, PhD; Chief, Viral Pathogenesis Laboratory; Chief, Clinical Trials Core, VRC/NIAID/NIH "Vision can become reality. This book documents how David Karzon’s vision became a curing and caring institution that has meant life and limb and hope for children." John Seigenthaler, Founder, The First Amendment Center; Chairman Emeritus, The Tennessean ". . . an interesting, important, and detailed analysis of the well-intentioned efforts, false steps, and machinations of community leaders, volunteers, visionaries, and academicians to create a hospital for children in Nashville. We are greatly indebted to Lisa DuBois for documenting the long process behind the creation of a children’s hospital at Vanderbilt." Robert C. Collins, MD, Author, Ernest William Goodpasture "DuBois not only brings to light the Junior League of Nashville’s commitment to this institution, but also the unforeseen challenges and widespread community support it took to make this valuable and long-term impact on the Nashville community." Sandi Kemmish, President 2006-2008, The Association of Junior Leagues International Inc. ". . . a lucidly written and exhaustively researched account of the founding of a major community institution. Author Lisa DuBois ransacked archives and interviewed scores of individuals to produce this eighty-year history. More Than a Place documents the generous and visionary acts of philanthropy, the bridging of religious and racial boundaries, the creative social entrepreneurship of dedicated physicians and university administrators, and the requisite advances in science and medicine that culminated in the establishment of a children’s hospital at Vanderbilt." Daniel B. Cornfield Professor of Sociology, Vanderbilt University, and Director of the Vanderbilt Center for Nashville Studies