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avg rating 3.60 — 58 ratings — published 2001

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avg rating 4.08 — 9,100 ratings — published 1978

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avg rating 3.57 — 91 ratings — published 2013

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avg rating 3.69 — 2,670 ratings — published 2007

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avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 1975

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avg rating 3.67 — 3 ratings — published

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avg rating 2.92 — 12 ratings — published 1994

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avg rating 3.71 — 13,480 ratings — published 1985

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avg rating 4.19 — 332 ratings — published 2016

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avg rating 4.13 — 491 ratings — published 1966

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avg rating 3.33 — 10,573 ratings — published 2015

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avg rating 3.89 — 481 ratings — published 1994

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avg rating 3.80 — 15 ratings — published 2012

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avg rating 4.01 — 36,727 ratings — published 2010

“The current head of that ward, an alienist named Menas Gregory, had been trying for years to change that haunted reputation. He angrily defended people in his care, many of whom had been brought in against their will when their families had them declared crazy. The lost occupants of his ward needed help, Gregory argued, not mockery, not groundless fear. He worried at how slow people accepted that, even in his own institution. 'There is, at the present time, no place where these patients may receive proper treatment.”
― The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
― The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York

“The first hospital building had been constructed there in 1811; only eight years later Bellevue became the first U.S. hospital to formally require a qualified physician to pronounce a death (after a desperately ill man had been discovered among the corpses stacked on the morgue wagon).”
― The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
― The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York