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Author Oshinsky, David M., 1944- author.

Title Bellevue : three centuries of medicine and mayhem at America's most storied hospital / David Oshinsky.

Publication Info. New York : Doubleday, [2016]
©2016

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Edition First edition.
Description 387 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-369) and index.
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 A 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.
Subject Bellevue Hospital.
Bellevue Hospital -- History.
Hospitals, Urban -- history.
History, Modern 1601-
New York (N.Y.)
Hospitals -- New York (State) -- New York -- History.
Hospital care -- New York (State) -- New York -- History.
Other Form: Online version: Oshinsky, David M., 1944- author. Bellevue. First edition. New York : Doubleday, [2016] 9780385540858 (DLC) 2016028334
ISBN 9780385523363 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
038552336X (hardcover ; alk. paper)
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