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Rise of the modern hospital : an architectural history of health and healing, 1870-1940 / Jeanne Kisacky.
LIBRA - Athenaeum of Philadelphia Circulating RA967 .K53 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kisacky, Jeanne Susan, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hospital architecture--United States--History--19th century.
- Hospital architecture.
- Hospital architecture--United States--History--20th century.
- Hospital buildings--United States--Design and construction--History.
- Hospital buildings.
- Health facilities--United States--Design and construction--History.
- Health facilities.
- Health facilities--Design and construction.
- Hospital buildings--Design and construction.
- History.
- United States.
- Hospital Design and Construction.
- Architecture.
- Medical Subjects:
- Hospital Design and Construction.
- Architecture.
- United States.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 448 pages ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Pittsburgh, PA : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2017]
- Summary:
- "Rise of the Modern Hospital is a focused examination of hospital design in the United States from the 1870s through the 1940s. This understudied period witnessed profound changes in hospitals as they shifted from last charitable resorts for the sick poor to premier locations of cutting-edge medical treatment for all classes, and from low-rise decentralized facilities to high-rise centralized structures. Jeanne Kisacky reveals the changing role of the hospital within the city, the competing claims of doctors and architects for expertise in hospital design, and the influence of new medical theories and practices on established traditions. She traces the dilemma designers faced between creating an environment that could function as a therapy in and of itself and an environment that was essentially a tool for the facilitation of increasingly technologically assisted medical procedures. Heavily illustrated with floor plans, drawings, and photographs, this book considers the hospital building as both a cultural artifact, revelatory of external medical and social change, and a cultural determinant, actively shaping what could and did take place within hospitals"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- The Hospital Building as a Means of Disease Prevention, 1700-1873
- The Transformative Potential and Conservative Reality of Germ Theory and Antisepsis, 1874-1877
- The Post-Germ Theory Pavilion in the Dawn of Asepsis, 1878-1897
- Hygienic Decentralization vs. Functional Centralization : Reasons for Continuity and Change, 1898-1917
- The Vertical Hospital as an Attractive Factory, 1917-1929
- The "Meadow Monument to Medicine and Science," 1930-1945
- Postwar Hospital Design Trends.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Albert M. Greenfield Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780822944614
- 0822944618
- OCLC:
- 951158160
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