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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Oshinsky, David M., 1944-     Subjects     Bellevue Hospital -- History.     Hospitals -- New York (State) -- New York -- History.     Hospital care -- New York (State) -- New York -- History.     Medicine -- History -- 19th century.     Medicine -- History -- 20th century.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Oshinsky, David M., 1944-       by title:      Bellevue : three cen...       by call number:      362.110974 O82b     Search the Web     Oshinsky, David M., 1944-     Bellevue Hospital -- History.     Hospitals -- New York (State) -- New York -- History.     Hospital care -- New York (State) -- New York -- History.     Medicine -- History -- 19th century.     Medicine -- History -- 20th century.       MARC Display

Bellevue : three centuries of medicine and mayhem at America's most storied hospital / David Oshinsky. by Oshinsky, David M., 1944- Doubleday, [2016] Call #: 362.110974 O82b Subjects Bellevue Hospital -- History.   Hospitals -- New York (State) -- New York -- History.   Hospital care -- New York (State) -- New York -- History.   Medicine -- History -- 19th century.   Medicine -- History -- 20th century. ISBN:  9780385523363 (hc.) Edition:  First edition. Description:  387 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-369) and index. 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. 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. Summary:  "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 scientific advance - that did not touch Bellevue. David Oshinsky, author of Polio: An American Story, chronicles the history of America's oldest hospital and in so doing also charts the path of American medicine from butchery and quackery to a professional and scientific endeavor. From its origins in 1738 as an almshouse and pesthouse, with its diverse, ailing, and unprotesting patient population, the hospital was a natural laboratory for the nation's first clinical research. It treated tens of thousands of Civil War soldiers, launched the first civilian ambulance corps and the first nursing school for women, pioneered medical photography and psychiatric treatment, and spurred New York City to establish the country's first official Board of Health. As medical technology advanced, "voluntary" hospitals began to seek out patients willing to pay for their care. For charity cases, it was left to Bellevue to fill the void. The latter decades of the twentieth century brought rampant crime, drug addiction, and homelessness to the nation's struggling cities - problems that called a public hospital's very survival into question. It took the AIDS crisis to cement Bellevue's enduring place as New York's ultimate safety net, the iconic hospital of last resort"--Provided by publisher. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Nonfiction 362.110974 O82b Core Collection - Adult Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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