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

By: Publisher: New York : Doubleday, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Edition: First editionDescription: 387 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780385523363 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 038552336X (hardcover : alk. paper)
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: BellevueDDC classification:
  • 362.11097471 23
LOC classification:
  • RA982.N5 B525 2016
NLM classification:
  • WX 28 AN7
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.

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.