This House of Noble Deeds: The Mount Sinai Hospital, 1852-2002

by Arthur H. Aufses Jr., Barbara Niss

Overview

Celebrates the medical achievements and pays homage to the history of New York's mount Sinai Hospital system

On January 15, 1852, nine men representing various Hebrew charitable organizations came together to establish the Jews' Hospital in New York with a vision of offering free medical care to the indigent Hebrews in the City who were unable to provide for themselves during their illness. This was the beginning of The Mount Sinai Hospital.

Now, a century and a half later, This House of Noble Deeds celebrates the scientific and medical achievements of The Mount Sinai Hospital. From its original 45-bed building, the Mount Sinai Medical Center has developed into a state-of-the-art facility comprising a 1200-bed hospital, a major medical school, and a research enterprise with a faculty of almost 3000.

Arthur H. Aufses, Jr. and Barbara J. Niss have identified and documented the most important scientific contributions of Mount Sinai over the past 150 years. They present histories of each major department and division, rich with anecdotes, biographical sketches, and photographs. In addition, they share the fascinating story of the hospital's creation and development, a story that ultimately transcends the parameters of the hospital itself and speaks to the broader matter of Jewish and medical history in New York.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780814705001
Publisher:	New York University Press
Publication date:	12/01/2002
Pages:	495
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 6.00(d)

About the Author

Arthur H. Aufses, Jr., has been affiliated with Mount Sinai for more than forty-five years. He served as Chairman of the Department of Surgery from 1974 to 1996. They are also authors of This House of Noble Deeds: The Mount Sinai Hospital, 1852-2002 (NYU Press, 2003).

Barbara J. Niss is the Archivist at The Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York, a program she helped formalize over fifteen years ago.

Table of Contents

Part 1 The First Departments: Medicine and Surgery
The Department of Medicine
1 The Leadership of the Department of Medicine
2 Division of Cardiology
3 Division of Clinical Immunology
4 Division of Endocrinology
5 Division of Gastroenterology
6 Divisions of Hematology and Thrombosis Research: The Blood Bank
7 Division of Infectious Diseases
8 Division of Liver Diseases
9 Department and Division of Neoplastic Diseases
10 Division of Nephrology
11 Division of Pulmonary Medicine
12 Division of Rheumatology
The Department of Surgery
13 Department of Surgery
Part II The Later Departments
14 Department of Anesthesiology
15 Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery
16 Department of Dentistry
17 Department of Dermatology
18 Department of Emergency Medicine
19 Department of Geriatrics and Adult Development
20 Department of Neurology
21 Department of Neurosurgery
22 Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences
23 Department of Ophthalmology
24 Department of Orthopaedics
25 Department of Otolaryngology
26 Department of Pathology
27 Department of Pediatrics
28 Department of Physics
29 Department of Psychiatry
30 Department of Radiation Oncology
31 Department of Radiology
32 Department of Rehabilitation Medicine
33 Department of Urology
34 Laboratory Departments

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