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.