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David Oshinsky

Biography

David Oshinsky

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.

David Oshinsky

Books by David Oshinsky

by David Oshinsky - History, Medicine, Nonfiction

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 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.