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Oshinsky, David M., 1944-

Bellevue : three centuries of medicine and mayhem at America's most storied hospital / David Oshinsky. - First edition. - 387 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

ISBN: 9780385523363 (hardcover : alk. paper) 038552336X (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN: 2016027568

Subjects--Corporate Names:
Bellevue Hospital.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Hospitals, Urban--history
Medicine
History, Modern 1601-

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
New York City

LC Class. No.: RA982.N5 / B525 2016

Dewey Class. No.: 362.11097471

National Library of Medicine Call No.: WX 28 AN7