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

Author

David M Oshinsky

Call Number

• 362.11 O826 (OSH)

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Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

New York : Doubleday, [2016]

Physical Description

387 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

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.