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.
"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 Polio: An
American Story, has a lovely flair for detail."
--Jennifer Senior, The New York Times "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."
--Boston Globe "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."
--Chicago Tribune "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!"
--Abraham Verghese, author of Cutting for Stone "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."
--USA Today "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."
--Entertainment Weekly
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