{"product_id":"bellevue-three-centuries-of-medicine-and-mayhem-at-americas-most-storied-hospital-paperback","title":"Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDavid Oshinsky\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian comes a riveting history of New York's iconic public hospital that charts the turbulent rise of American medicine. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBellevue 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.\u003cbr\u003e David Oshinsky, whose last book, \u003ci\u003ePolio: An American Story\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003cbr\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eBellevue\u003c\/i\u003e is essential American history.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eDAVID OSHINSKY, Ph.D., is a professor in the NYU Department of History and director of the Division of Medical Humanities at the NYU School of Medicine. In 2005, he won the Pulitzer Prize in History for \u003ci\u003ePolio: An American Story\u003c\/i\u003e. His other books include the D.B. Hardeman Prize-winning \u003ci\u003eA Conspiracy So Immense: The World of Joe McCarthy\u003c\/i\u003e, and the Robert Kennedy Prize-winning \u003ci\u003e\"Worse Than Slavery\" Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow Justice\u003c\/i\u003e. His articles and reviews appear regularly in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 416\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 7.9 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 24, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51978820649261,"sku":"9780307386717","price":20.19,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/eERTVGRvMFUvSGNUS1dQTW82V3ZOdz09.webp?v=1775810487","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/bellevue-three-centuries-of-medicine-and-mayhem-at-americas-most-storied-hospital-paperback","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}