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Bellevue : three centuries of medicine and mayhem at America's most storied hospital

Oshinsky, David M. 1944- (author.).

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.

Item details

ISBN: 9780307386717
ISBN: 0307386716
Physical Description: print
387 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Edition: First Anchor books edition.
Publisher: New York : Anchor Books, [2017]
Copyright: ©2016

Contents / Notes

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	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.