Bellevue : three centuries of medicine and mayhem at America's most storied hospital / David Oshinsk...
Bellevue : three centuries of medicine and mayhem at America's most storied hospital / David Oshinsk...
Bellevue : three centuries of medicine and mayhem at America's most storied hospital / David Oshinsky.
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Publisher
New York : Doubleday, [2016]
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G 2017/5709
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Language
English
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Physical content
387 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
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 shockin...
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Publisher
New York : Doubleday, [2016]
Edition
First edition.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
[2016]
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Summary
A history of the iconic public hospital on New York City's East Side describes the changes in American medicine from 1730 to modern times as it traces the building's origins as an almshouse and pesthouse to its current status as a revered place of first-class care.
Bellevue Hospital, on New York City's East Side, occupies a colorful and horrifying place in the public imagination: a den of mangled crime victims, vicious psychopaths, assorted derelicts, lunatics, and exotic-disease sufferers. In its two and a half centuries of service, there was hardly an epidemic or social catastrophe--or groundbreaking scient...
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Bellevue : three centuries of medicine and mayhem at America's most storied hospital / David Oshinsky.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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©2016
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G 2017/5709
Record Identifier
74VKVgyL3kkA
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVgyL3kkA
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ISBN
038552336X (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780385523363 (hardcover : alk. paper)
DDC
362.11097471
MMS ID
991024148706902626
