LEADER 03877nam 22005293 450 001 9910149208303321 005 20241107094546.0 010 $a9780385540858 010 $a038554085X 035 $a(CKB)3710000000932916 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6107997 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6107997 035 $a(OCoLC)1156016303 035 $a(ODN)ODN0002637557 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000932916 100 $a20210901d2016 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aBellevue $eThree Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital 205 $a1st ed. 210 $d2016 210 1$aWestminster :$cKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group,$d2016. 210 4$dİ2016. 215 $a1 online resource (415 pages) 311 08$a0-385-52336-X 327 $aBeginnings -- 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. 330 $aFrom a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian comes a riveting history of New York's iconic public hospital that charts the turbulent rise of American medicine. 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, whose last book, Polio: An American Story , was awarded a Pulitzer Prize, chronicles the history of America's oldest hospital and in so doing also charts the rise of New York to the nation's preeminent city, the path of American medicine from butchery and quackery to a professional and scientific endeavor, and the growth of a civic institution. From its origins in 1738 as an almshouse and pesthouse, Bellevue today is a revered public hospital bringing first-class care to anyone in need. 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. Lively, page-turning, fascinating, Bellevue is essential American history. 606 $aNonfiction$2OverDrive 606 $aHistory$2OverDrive 606 $aMedical$2OverDrive 607 $aNew York City 615 17$aNonfiction. 615 7$aHistory. 615 7$aMedical. 676 $a362.1109747/1 686 $aHIS036000$aHIS054000$aMED039000$2bisacsh 700 $aOshinsky$b David$01245171 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910149208303321 996 $aBellevue$92888075 997 $aUNINA