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| Title |
Bellevue : three centuries of medicine and mayhem at America's most storied hospital / David Oshinsky. |
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| Publisher |
New York : Doubleday, c2016. |
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| Edition |
First edition. |
| Descript |
387 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates ; 25 cm. |
| Note |
Nonfiction. |
| Bibliog. |
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 |
"In this captivating new history, David Oshinsky presents a sweeping and at times horrifying chronicle of Bellevue's rise from a wretched almshouse infirmary-a place where a patient was more likely to leave in a coffin than to be cured-to a revered public hospital and a premier trauma center for visiting world leaders." -- dust jacket. |
| Subject |
Bellevue Hospital.
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Hospitals -- New York (State) -- New York -- History.
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Hospital care -- New York (State) -- New York -- History.
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New York (N. Y.)
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| ISBN/ISSN |
038552336X (hardcover) |
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9780385523363 (hardcover) |
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