Bellevue : three centuries of medicine and mayhem at America's most storied hospital
(2016)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
362.110974/OSHINSKY,D
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Doubleday, [2016]
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
387 pages ; 25 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780385523363, 038552336X
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
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