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

Three centuries of medicine and mayhem at America's most storied hospital
ISBN:
9780385523363
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Info:
New York :
Description:
387 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
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.
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