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

New York : Doubleday, [2016]

387 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour) ; 25 cm

First edition.

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.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [329]-369) and index.