David Oshinsky is the Director of the Division of Medical Humanities at NYU Langone Health and a Professor in the Department of History at NYU. His most recent book is Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America’s Most Storied Hospital. (October 2020)
Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad and Criminal in 19th-Century New York
by Stacy Horn
Genetics in the Madhouse: The Unknown History of Human Heredity
by Theodore M. Porter
No One Cares About Crazy People: My Family and the Heartbreak of Mental Illness in America
by Ron Powers
Insane: America’s Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness
by Alisa Roth
October 25, 2018 issue
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