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Any exciting book about the history of Bellevue which this one surely is is destined to be as much about the history of disease, medicine and New York City as about the hospital itself. Mr. Oshinsky s chapters about the early days of medicine are especially, distractingly interesting so much so that they ll inspire you to read them aloud to anyone who ll listen . . . Mr. Oshinsky, who won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for history for <i>Polio: An American Story</i>, has a lovely flair for detail. <b> Jennifer Senior, <i>The New York Times</i></b> No other hospital is as embedded in our culture as Bellevue. David Oshinsky s biography of this grand dame of America s public hospitals is a page-turner . . . Oshinsky has captured the spirit, the resilience that is Bellevue, a quality that rubs off on the legions who have trained there. A wonderful read! <b> Abraham Verghese, author of <i>Cutting for Stone</i></b> Compelling . . . In this rich history, we bear witness to a remarkable transformation as Bellevue evolves from bare-bones almshouse appendage in the 1700s to world-class academic medical center today . . . Oshinsky simply has a wealth of great material, and it s a joy to traverse it with him. <b><i> USA Today</i></b> You ll walk away in awe of this tenacious institution and marvel at the way Oshinsky also fits a comprehensive but succinct history of modern medicine itself into the same book. <b><i> Entertainment Weekly</i></b> <i>Bellevue</i> is a tale of medicine s tragedies and triumphs in the cauldron of New York City . . . A story of America s most esteemed public hospital that will both enlighten and inspire. <b> Jerome Groopman, MD, author of <i>How Doctors Think</i></b> A lively contribution to popular histories of New York and its institutions, worthy of shelving alongside Robert Caro's<i>The Power Broker</i>and Edwin Burrows and Mike Wallace's<i>Gotham</i>. <b><i> Kirkus Reviews</i></b>

Any exciting book about the history of Bellevue which this one surely is is destined to be as much about the history of disease, medicine and New York City as about the hospital itself. Mr. Oshinsky s chapters about the early days of medicine are especially, distractingly interesting so much so that they ll inspire you to read them aloud to anyone who ll listen . . . Mr. Oshinsky, who won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for history for <i>Polio: An American Story</i>, has a lovely flair for detail. <b> Jennifer Senior, <i>The New York Times</i></b> Brilliant and deliciously readable . . .The story of Bellevue, Oshinsky convincingly demonstrates, is the story of modern medicine, of New York City, and of America itself. <b><i> Boston Globe</i></b> Deeply engrossing . . .Oshinsky has wrestled an institutional history of significant complexity into a compelling tale . . . [He]is a master of finding and relating memorable anecdotes to embody the history. The result is a serious story studded with juicy and occasionally blood-curdling bits from the past. <b><i> Chicago Tribune</i></b> No other hospital is as embedded in our culture as Bellevue. David Oshinsky s biography of this grand dame of America s public hospitals is a page-turner . . . Oshinsky has captured the spirit, the resilience that is Bellevue, a quality that rubs off on the legions who have trained there. A wonderful read! <b> Abraham Verghese, author of <i>Cutting for Stone</i></b> Compelling . . . In this rich history, we bear witness to a remarkable transformation as Bellevue evolves from bare-bones almshouse appendage in the 1700s to world-class academic medical center today . . . Oshinsky simply has a wealth of great material, and it s a joy to traverse it with him. <b><i> USA Today</i></b> You ll walk away in awe of this tenacious institution and marvel at the way Oshinsky also fits a comprehensive but succinct history of modern medicine itself into the same book. <b><i> Entertainment Weekly</i></b>

No other hospital is as embedded in our culture as Bellevue. David Oshinsky s biography of this grand dame of America s public hospitals is a page-turner, a tale of immigrants and epidemics, politicians and physicians, natural disasters and acts of terrorism, all of which shaped Bellevue, just as they shaped a city and a nation. Public policy at its best and worst comes alive. Oshinsky has captured the spirit, the resilience that is Bellevue, a quality that rubs off on the legions who have trained there. A wonderful read! <b> Abraham Verghese, author of <i>Cutting for Stone</i></b> David Oshinsky s <i>Bellevue</i> reads like the screenplay for Steven Soderbergh s <i>The Knick</i> medicine at its crudest and cruelest. Yet from these gothic beginnings rises a hospital at the center of life-saving scientific breakthroughs. <i>Bellevue</i> describes the suffering and death that is the inevitable price for medical advances while at the same time offering hope for the better angels of medicine s future. <b> Paul A. Offit, MD, author of <i>Autism s False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a Cure</i></b> <i>Bellevue</i> is a tale of medicine s tragedies and triumphs in the cauldron of New York City. In vivid prose, David Oshinsky portrays caregivers who, through the centuries, selflessly served the neediest and the unwanted, as well as researchers who pushed the boundaries of clinical knowledge, all the while battling bureaucrats and social indifference. This is a story of America s most esteemed public hospital that will both enlighten and inspire. <b> Jerome Groopman, MD, author of <i>How Doctors Think</i></b> David Oshinsky s <i>Bellevue</i> is American history at its very finest. It s impossible to understand our nation s public health advancements without reading this authoritative retelling of New York City s storied hospital. A masterpiece of scholarship. <b> Douglas Brinkley, author of <i>The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America</i> and <i>The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast</i></b>

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DAVID 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 Polio: An American Story. His other books include the D.B. Hardeman Prize-winning A Conspiracy So Immense: The World of Joe McCarthy, and the Robert Kennedy Prize-winning Worse Than Slavery : Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow Justice. His articles and reviews appear regularly in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.

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