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David M. Oshinsky is the director of the Division of Medical Humanities at NYU School of Medicine and a professor in the Department of History at New York University.

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Average rating: 4.15 · 14,160 ratings · 1,555 reviews · 38 distinct works • Similar authors

	Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital 4.23 avg rating — 6,873 ratings — published 2016 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Polio: An American Story 4.05 avg rating — 5,930 ratings — published 2005 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Worse Than Slavery: Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow Justice 4.31 avg rating — 1,094 ratings — published 1996 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Conspiracy So Immense: The World of Joe McCarthy 3.97 avg rating — 159 ratings — published 1983 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Capital Punishment on Trial: Furman v. Georgia and the Death Penalty in Modern America 3.66 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 2010 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Case of the Nazi Professor 3.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1989 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	American Passages: Since 1865 V. 2: A History of the United States 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Senator Joseph Mc Carthy And The American Labor Movement really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1976	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	American Leisure in the 20th Century: Modern America: Books on 20th Century America it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits.” Before”
― David Oshinsky, Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital

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“How little we seem able to do in a lifetime—and how fast the years slip by.”42”
― David M. Oshinsky, Polio: An American Story

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“Asked for the secret of his longevity, Smith, who would live to ninety-nine, was typically brief. “Work and keep out of the easy chair,” he said. Anything else? Well, yes, Smith replied with his usual foresight. “Don’t eat too much meat.”
― David Oshinsky, Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital

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Terrible Typhoid Mary: A True Story of the Deadliest Cook in America

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City of Light, City of Poison: Murder, Magic, and the First Police Chief of Paris

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

by David M. Oshinsky

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Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West

by Wallace Stegner

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Coming of Age In Mississippi: The Classic Autobiography of Growing Up Poor and Black In the Rural South

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Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs

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The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine

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