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Bellevue

Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital

By: David Oshinsky

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Bellevue

Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital

By: David Oshinsky

From a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian comes a riveting history of New York's iconic public hospital that charts the turbulent rise of American medicine. Bellevue Hospital, on New York City's East Side, occupies a colorful and horrifying place in the public imagination: a den of mangled crime victims, vicious psychopaths, assorted derelicts, lunatics, and exotic-disease sufferers. In its two and a half centuries of service, there was hardly an epidemic or social catastrophe—or groundbreaking scientific advance—that did not touch Bellevue. David Oshinsky, whose last book, Polio: An American Story, was awarded a Pulitzer Prize, chronicles the history of America's oldest hospital and in so doing also charts the rise of New York to the nation's preeminent city, the path of American medicine from butchery and quackery to a professional and scientific endeavor, and the growth of a civic institution. From its origins in 1738 as an almshouse and pesthouse, Bellevue today is a revered public hospital bringing first-class care to anyone in need. With its diverse, ailing, and unprotesting patient population, the hospital was a natural laboratory for the nation's first clinical research. It treated tens of thousands of Civil War soldiers, launched the first civilian ambulance corps and the first nursing school for women, pioneered medical photography and psychiatric treatment, and spurred New York City to establish the country's first official Board of Health. As medical technology advanced, "voluntary" hospitals began to seek out patients willing to pay for their care. For charity cases, it was left to Bellevue to fill the void. The latter decades of the twentieth century brought rampant crime, drug addiction, and homelessness to the nation's struggling cities—problems that called a public hospital's very survival into question. It took the AIDS crisis to cement Bellevue's enduring place as New York's ultimate safety net, the iconic hospital of last resort. Lively, page-turning, fascinating, Bellevue is essential American history.

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An Antidote for a Poisonous Combination: Recently Prepared by a "Citizen of New-York," Alias Dr. Reese, Entitled, "An Appeal to the Reason and Religion of American Christians," &c. : also, David Meredith Reese's "Humbugs" Dissected

By: David Ruggles

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An Antidote for a Poisonous Combination: Recently Prepared by a "Citizen of New-York," Alias Dr. Reese, Entitled, "An Appeal to the Reason and Religion of American Christians," &c. : also, David Meredith Reese's "Humbugs" Dissected

By: David Ruggles

Reprint of the original, first published in 1838.

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From Newgate to Dannemora

The Rise of the Penitentiary in New York, 1796–1848

By: W. David Lewis

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From Newgate to Dannemora

The Rise of the Penitentiary in New York, 1796–1848

By: W. David Lewis

A significant chapter in the history of American social reform is traced in this skillful account of the rise of the New York penitentiary system at a time when the United States was garnering international acclaim for its penal methods. Beginning with Newgate, an ill-fated institution built in New York City and named after the famous British prison, W. David Lewis describes the development of such well-known institutions as Auburn Prison and Sing Sing, and ends with the establishment of Clinton Prison at Dannemora. In the process, he analyzes the activities and motives of such penal reformers as Thomas Eddy, the Quaker merchant who was chiefly responsible for the founding of the penitentiary system in New York; Elam Lynds, whose unsparing use of the lash made him one of the most famous wardens in American history; and Eliza W. Farnham, who attempted to base the treatment of convicts upon the pseudoscience of phrenology.The history of the Auburn penal system—copied throughout the world in the nineteenth century—is the central topic of Lewis's study. Harsh and repressive discipline was the rule at Auburn; by night, the inmates were kept in solitary confinement and by day they were compelled to maintain absolute silence while working together in penitentiary shops. Moreover, the proceeds of their labor were expected to cover the full cost of institutional maintenance, turning the prison into a factory. (Indeed, Auburn Prison became a leading center of silk manufacture for a time.)Lewis shows how the rise and decline of the Auburn system reflected broad social and intellectual trends during the period. Conceived in the 1820s, a time of considerable public anxiety, the methods used at Auburn were seriously challenged twenty years later, when a feeling of social optimism was in the air. The Auburn system survived the challenge, however, and its methods, only slightly modified, continued to be used in dealing with most of the state's adult criminals to the end of the century.First published in 1965, From Newgate to Dannemora was the first in-depth treatment of American prison reform that took into account the broader context of political, economic, and cultural trends in the early national and Jacksonian period. With its clear prose and appealing narrative approach, this paperback edition will appeal to a new generation of readers interested in penology, the history of New York State, and the broader history of American social reform.

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Cornell University Press

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1501727672

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Phrenology Known by Its Fruits: Being a Brief Review of Doctor Brigham's Late Work

By: David Meredith Reese

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Phrenology Known by Its Fruits: Being a Brief Review of Doctor Brigham's Late Work

By: David Meredith Reese

Reprint of the original, first published in 1836.

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3385146887

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John Hunter and His Pupils

By: Samuel David Gross

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John Hunter and His Pupils

By: Samuel David Gross

Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.

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3385447259

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The Summer of 1787

The Men Who Invented the Constitution

By: David O. Stewart

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The Summer of 1787

The Men Who Invented the Constitution

By: David O. Stewart

A true-life suspense story, "The Summer of 1787" takes readers into the sweltering room in which delegates struggled for four months to produce the flawed but enduring document that had come to define the nation, then and now.

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Simon and Schuster

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0743286936

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From Homicide to Slavery : Studies in American Culture

Studies in American Culture

By: David Brion Davis Sterling Professor of History Yale University

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From Homicide to Slavery : Studies in American Culture

Studies in American Culture

By: David Brion Davis Sterling Professor of History Yale University

For more than twenty years David Brion Davis has been recognized as a leading authority on the moral and ideological responses to slavery in the Western world. From Homicide to Slavery, Davis's first book of collected essays, brings together selections reflecting his wide-ranging interests in colonial history, Afro-American history, the social sciences, and American literature. The essays are interconnected by Davis's central concern with violence, irrationality, and the definition of moral limits during a period when Americans believed they were breaking free from historical constraints and acquiring new powers of self-perfection. Topics range from a socially revealing murder trial in 1843 to debates over capital punishment, movements of counter-subverison, the iconography of race, the cowboy as an American hero, the portrayal of violence in American literature, the historiography of slavery, and the British and American antislavery movements.

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Humbugs of New-York. Being a Remonstrance Against Popular Delusion. Whether in Science, Philosophy, or Religion

By: David Meredith Reese

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Humbugs of New-York. Being a Remonstrance Against Popular Delusion. Whether in Science, Philosophy, or Religion

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1838.

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An Antidote for a Poisonous Combination: Recently Prepared by a "Citizen of New-York," Alias Dr. Reese, Entitled, "An Appeal to the Reason and Religion of American Christians," &c. : also, David Meredith Reese's "Humbugs" Dissected

By: David Ruggles

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An Antidote for a Poisonous Combination: Recently Prepared by a "Citizen of New-York," Alias Dr. Reese, Entitled, "An Appeal to the Reason and Religion of American Christians," &c. : also, David Meredith Reese's "Humbugs" Dissected

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Bellevue

Bellevue

An Antidote for a Poisonous Combination: Recently Prepared by a "Citizen of New-York," Alias Dr. Reese, Entitled, "An Appeal to the Reason and Religion of American Christians," &c. : also, David Meredith Reese's "Humbugs" Dissected

An Antidote for a Poisonous Combination: Recently Prepared by a "Citizen of New-York," Alias Dr. Reese, Entitled, "An Appeal to the Reason and Religion of American Christians," &c. : also, David Meredith Reese's "Humbugs" Dissected

From Newgate to Dannemora

From Newgate to Dannemora

Phrenology Known by Its Fruits: Being a Brief Review of Doctor Brigham's Late Work

Phrenology Known by Its Fruits: Being a Brief Review of Doctor Brigham's Late Work

John Hunter and His Pupils

John Hunter and His Pupils

The Summer of 1787

The Summer of 1787

From Homicide to Slavery : Studies in American Culture

From Homicide to Slavery : Studies in American Culture

Humbugs of New-York. Being a Remonstrance Against Popular Delusion. Whether in Science, Philosophy, or Religion

Humbugs of New-York. Being a Remonstrance Against Popular Delusion. Whether in Science, Philosophy, or Religion

An Antidote for a Poisonous Combination: Recently Prepared by a "Citizen of New-York," Alias Dr. Reese, Entitled, "An Appeal to the Reason and Religion of American Christians," &c. : also, David Meredith Reese's "Humbugs" Dissected

An Antidote for a Poisonous Combination: Recently Prepared by a "Citizen of New-York," Alias Dr. Reese, Entitled, "An Appeal to the Reason and Religion of American Christians," &c. : also, David Meredith Reese's "Humbugs" Dissected

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