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From a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian comes a riveting history of New York's iconic open public hospital that graphs the turbulent climb of American drugs. Bellevue Clinic, on NY City's East Area, occupies a vibrant and horrifying devote the public thoughts: a den of mangled crime subjects, vicious psychopaths, assorted derelicts, lunatics, and exotic-disease sufferers. In its two . 5 centuries of service, there was hardly an epidemic or social catastrophe - or groundbreaking scientific advance - that didn't touch Bellevue. David Oshinsky, whose previous reserve, Polio: An American Story, was honored a Pulitzer Reward, chronicles the history of America's oldest medical center and by doing this also graphs the climb of NY to the nation's preeminent city, the path of American drugs from butchery and quackery to a specialist and scientific undertaking, and the progress of an civic organization. From its origins in 1738 as an almshouse and pesthouse, Bellevue today is a revered open public hospital having first-class care and attention to anyone in need. With its diverse, ailing, and unprotesting patient inhabitants, the hospital was an all natural laboratory for the nation's first medical research. It cared for tens of thousands of Civil War troops, launched the first civilian ambulance corps and the first nursing school for girls, pioneered medical photography and psychiatric treatment, and spurred NEW YORK to establish the country's first official table of health. As medical technology advanced, "voluntary" private hospitals began to seek out patients willing to cover their care and attention. For charity instances it was remaining to Bellevue to load the void. The latter generations of the 20th hundred years brought rampant crime, drug cravings, and homelessness to the nation's struggling metropolitan areas - problems that called a open public hospital's very success into question. It had taken the AIDS crisis to cement Bellevue's long lasting place as New York's ultimate back-up, the iconic medical center of last resort. Lively, pause-resisting, interesting, Bellevue is essential American history.
