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Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America’s Most Storied Hospital

With David Oshinsky, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, professor in the NYU Department of History, and director of Medical Humanities at the NYU School of Medicine.

This illustrated lecture chronicles the riveting history of New York’s iconic public hospital and America’s oldest hospital. It charts the turbulent rise of American medicine, the path from butchery and quackery to a professional and scientific endeavor, and the rise of New York to the nation’s preeminent city,.











When: Mon., Apr. 3, 2017 at 6:30 pm
Where: New York Public Library—Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library
476 Fifth Ave. (42nd St. Entrance)
212-340-0863
Price: Free
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With David Oshinsky, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, professor in the NYU Department of History, and director of Medical Humanities at the NYU School of Medicine.

This illustrated lecture chronicles the riveting history of New York’s iconic public hospital and America’s oldest hospital. It charts the turbulent rise of American medicine, the path from butchery and quackery to a professional and scientific endeavor, and the rise of New York to the nation’s preeminent city,.

Buy tickets/get more info now