Search
Type
Format
Sort
Location
Audience

Oshinsky, David M.

Summary: A history of the iconic public hospital on New York City's East Side describes the changes in American medicine from 1730 to modern times as it traces the building's origins as an almshouse and pesthouse to its current status as a revered place of first-class care.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2016

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: 362.110 OSH

Skenandore, Amanda

Summary: The Alienist meets The Light of Luna Park in a fascinating historical novel based on the little-known story of America's first nursing school, as a young female grifter in 1880s New York evades the police by conning her way into Bellevue Hospital's training school for nurses... In the slums of 1880s New York, Una Kelly has grown up to be a rough-and-tumble grifter, able to filch a pocketbook in...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2022

Sorry, no copies available

Place a hold to request this item.

Ofri, Danielle.

Summary: Singular Intimacies is the story of becoming a doctor by immersion at New York's Bellevue Hospital, the oldest public hospital in the country-and perhaps the most legendary. It is both the classic inner-city hospital and a unique amalgam of history, insanity, beauty, and intellect. When Danielle Ofri enters the doors of this 250-year-old institution as a tentative medical student, she is...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2002

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 610.9 OFR

Bacon, Edgar S.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Equinox Press 1982

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL FIC BAC

Holland, Julie

Summary: In an absorbing memoir laced with humor, Holland provides an unvarnished look at life in the psych ER, recounting stories from her vast case files that are alternately terrifying, tragically comic, and profoundly moving: the serial killer, the naked man barking like a dog in Times Square, the schizophrenic begging for an injection of club soda to quiet the voices in his head, the subway...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2009

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HOLLAND, JULIE HOL

chat loading...
Back to Top