Bellevue Hospital Memoir By Assistant Director
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Cutolo, Salvatore. Bellevue Is My Home. Garden City: Doubleday, 1956. First Edition of the biographical and historical memoir by the assistant director of Bellevue Hospital.
A personal and professional history by Dr. Salvatore Cutolo on how he came to live, work and love Bellevue Hospital, America’s oldest public hospital, with insights into mid-20th-century mental health practices and their surrounding laws. Apparently, anyone can have their neighbor committed in New York, but thankfully the letter of the law was given over to professional discretion.
As Cutolo is quoted as saying in Bellevue Diary, “She’s not much to look at, but then; Bellevue is not a story of bricks or technology, is she? Bellevue is a tale of men and women!”
317pp, 8vo. Black cloth boards with title and author gilt on spine. Some wear to top and bottom spine. Spotting along top book block edge. Some yellowing to pages. Text clean. Dustjacket worn with losses to corners and scratching to front and back. Wear to top and bottom spine with 1″ tear at top left corner. A very good in a good condition.
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