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100 1  Oshinsky, David M.,|d1944-|eauthor. 
245 10 Bellevue :|bthree centuries of medicine and mayhem at 
       America's most storied hospital /|cDavid Oshinsky. 
250    First edition. 
264  1 New York :|bDoubleday,|c[2016] 
300    387 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :|billustrations 
       (some color) ;|c25 cm 
336    text|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|2rdamedia 
338    volume|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0  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. 
520    "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 catastropheor 
       groundbreaking scientific advancethat did not touch 
       Bellevue. 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 citiesproblems 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" --|cadapted from Amazon. 
610 20 Bellevue Hospital. 
650  0 Hospitals|zNew York (State)|zNew York|xHistory. 
651  0 New York (N.Y.)|xHistory.