Biography

Suzanne Gordon is an award-winning journalist and author. She has written for the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, the Atlantic Monthly, the American Prospect, the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star and others. She’s the author of seven books including Life Support:Three Nurses on the Front Lines which was originally published by Little Brown & Co.and which has just been reissued by Cornell University Press with a new forward by Claire Fagin and epilogue by the author; and co-editor of three books and co-author of From Silence to Voice:What Nurses Know and Must Communicate to the Public.Her book on the nursing crisis --Nursing Against the Odds:How Health Care Cost Cutting, Media Stereotypes, and Medical Hubris Undermine Nurses and Patient Care -- is out in paperback published by Cornell University Press as part of its series on The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work. Her latest book, co-edited with Sioban Nelson, is Complexities of Care:Nursing Reconsidered, also by Cornell University Press. Her forthcoming book,Safety in Numbers: Nurse-to-Patient Ratios and the Future of Health Care will be published by CUP in April 2008. She has been a health care commentator in the U.S. for Public Radio International’s "Marketplace" business program, and a popular lecturer. She is also Visiting Professor at the University of Maryland School of Nursing and Assistant, Adjunct Professor at the University of California San Francisco’s School of Nursing. Gordon is co-editor of Cornell University Press’s series on the Culture and Politics of Health Care Work. She is also co-author, with playwright Lisa Hayes of the new play about doctor/nurse relationships entitled Bedside Manners.