Bellevue : three centuries of medicine and mayhem at America's most storied hospital / David Oshinsky.
Title:
Bellevue : three centuries of medicine and mayhem at America's most storied hospital / David Oshinsky.
Author:
Oshinsky, David M., 1944-
ISBN:
9780385523363
9780307386717
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Publication Date:
2016
Publication Info:
New York :
Doubleday,
[2016]
Physical Description:
387 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
General Note:
Imprint varies.
Contents:
Beginnings -- Hosack's vision -- The great epidemic -- Teaching medicine -- A hospital in war -- "Hives of sickness and vice" -- The Bellevue ambulance -- Bellevue Venus -- Nightingales -- Germ theory -- A tale of two presidents -- The mad house -- The new metropolis -- Cause of death -- The shocking truth -- Survival -- AIDS -- Rock bottom -- Sandy -- Rebirth.
Summary:
This history of the iconic public hospital on New York City's East Side describes the changes in American medicine from 1730 to modern times as it traces the building's origins as an almshouse and pesthouse to its current status as a revered place of first-class care.
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