Mending bodies, saving souls : a history of hospitals / Guenter B. Risse.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Risse, Guenter B., 1932- author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hospitals--History.

Hospital care--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (747 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

By chronicling the transformations of hospitals from houses of mercy to tools for confinement, from dwellings of rehabilitation to spaces for clinical teaching and research, this book provides historical approach to understanding today's hospitals.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Preface

Introduction

Framework for a history of hospitals

Hospital narratives and case histories

1. Pre-Christian Healing Places

Dreaming of Asclepius: Ancient Greek Temple Healing

A divine summons to Pergamon

Asclepius and his cult

Temple healing: Ideology and patronage

Staging temple rituals

Aristides' healing dreams

Collective Care of Soldiers and Slaves: Roman Valetudinaria

A young warrior becomes ill

Building a new professional army

Valetudinaria: Ideology and mission

Valetudinaria: Organization and staff

Soldiers and their care

Asclepieion and Valetudinarium: Confluence of the Sacred and Secular

2. Christian Hospitality: Shelters and Infirmaries

Early Christianity: A New Vision of the Sick

Edessa: famine, epidemics, and strangers

Christianity: Constructing a mission of healing

Christian welfare: Rise of the xenodocheion

Slash and burn": Caring for the sick

Healing at St. Gall: The Golden Age of Benedictine Monasticism

The abbot of St. Gall takes a fall

Benedict's monasteries: Ora et labora

Monastic caring spaces: Infirmary and hostel

Healing in monasteries: A community approach

The Twilight of Western Monastic Supremacy

3. Church and Laity: Partnership in Hospital Care

The Pantocrator Xenon of Constantinople

Tales of a feverish poet

Post-Justinian Byzantium: Society, medicine, and xenones

Islam's bimaristan and Christianity's Pantocrator xenon

Theodores Prodromes and life in the hospital

Our Patients, Our Lords": The Care of Pilgrims in Jerusalem

A pilgrimage to Jerusalem c 1172

Jerusalem and the Hospital of St. John: Mission and patronage

Feudal loyalty: Caring for "Our Lords the Sick

St. John's Hospital: Model for the world

Hospital Agendas in Peril: Corruption and Early Medicalization.

4. Hospitals as Segregation and Confinement Tools: Leprosy and Plague

Leper Houses

A fateful second opinion

Views of leprosy and the construction of stigma

Locus of confinement: Anatomy of leper houses

Institutional rituals

Pesthouses or Lazarettos

Trastevere: Rome's early plague spot

Framing and fighting plague: Pestilence and public health

Lazarettos: Makeshift isolation, cleansing, and treatment

From Asclepius to San Bartolomeo: Purification rites

Frameworks for early medicalization

Welfare and Hospitals in Early Modern Europe

5. Enlightenment: Medicalization of the Hospital

Edinburgh, 1750-1800

Wanted: A letter of recommendation

Age of Enlightenment: Edinburgh and its infirmary

Hospital patients and their management

House of teaching: Clinical instruction and research

Vienna, 1750-1800

Seeking care: A tailor's fate

Joseph II and Vienna's Allgemeines Krankenhaus

Johann Peter Frank: Hospital director and Brunonian practitioner

Clinicum practicum: The patient as teacher

6. Human Bodies Revealed: Hospitals in Post Revolutionary Paris

A former soldier seeks rest

Ancien Régime: Paris and its hospitals

Hospital reform: The fate of France's "curing machines

Bedside and autopsy table: New approaches to disease

Physical diagnosis: Laennec and the stethoscope

Life at the Necker Hospital

Parisian hospitals: Teaching and research

The patient's body: Centerpiece of medical learning

7. Modern Surgery in Hospitals: Development of Anesthesia and Antisepsis

America: Warren and Anesthesia

Living in a voluntary American hospital

Philantropy in Boston: The Massachusetts General Hospital

Management of pain: A professional goal

First amputation under ether anesthesia, 1846

The significance of ether anesthesia

Scotland: Lister and Antisepsis.

From the Shetlands to Victorian Edinburgh

Hospitalism and the "new" nursing

Lister and the antiseptic system of surgery

Infirmary life: An eyewitness account

Providing aseptic surgery: A new role for hospitals

8. The Limits of Medical Science: Hospitals in Fin-de-Siècle Europe and America

Typhoid fever and Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, 1891

A bartender with fever

Hopkins and Billings: Genesis and gestation of a new hospital

Osler, physicians, and nurses

Life in the hospital: The healing power of water

Science and religion: Partners in healing

Cholera and Eppendorf General Hospital, Hamburg, 1892

A frightful collapse

Eppendorf General Hospital: Model for the world?

Cholera and hospital caregivers

Back to water: Managing cholera at the Eppendorf Hospital

Aftermath

9. Main Street's Civic Pride: The American General Hospital as Professional Workshop

An automobile accident in 1930

A public undertaking": American hospitals after 1900

Madison, Wisconsin, and its general hospital

Who pays? "Hospital-hotels" face the Depression

A new national epidemic: Automobile accidents

Efficiency versus humanity: Hospital life at MGH

The road to financial health

10. Hospitals at the Crossroads: Government, Society, and Catholicism in America, 1950-1975

A sudden heart attack

Serving the community: Buffalo and Mercy Hospital

Catholic hospitals: "The fairest flowers of missionary endeavor

Hospital life at Mercy Hospital, 1954

Another heart attack, 1974

The impact of Medicare

Catholic hospitals: Identity crisis and ethical guidelines

Wired for survival: Life in Mercy's CCU

Moving forward under God

11. Hospitals as Biomedical Showcases: Academic Health Centers and Organ Transplantation

Searching for a donor

From teaching hospitals to academic health centers.

Quest for excellence: Moffitt Hospital and UCSF

Renal transplantation: Scientific, clinical, and professional contours

World class: Transplantation at UCSF

Rebirth" at Moffitt Hospital

Making transplantation routine

12. Caring for the Incurable: AIDS at San Francisco General Hospital

An early AIDS portrait: "Warren

San Francisco General Hospital: Tradition and evolution

Framing AIDS in the early 1980s: Lifestyle, cancer, or infection?

Who "owns" AIDS in San Francisco? Planning Ward 5 B

Gay pride: Patients' rights and responsibilities

The art of nursing: Life in Ward 5 B

Managing death and dying

The lessons of AIDS

Conclusion: Towards the Next Millennium: The Future of Hospitals as Healing Spaces

Evolution of hospitals: A profile

The new American spirituality

Consumerism in medicine

New managerial and financial imperatives

Hospitals and the humanity of institutional care

Index.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 1999.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

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ISBN:

0-19-770758-0

1-280-44052-X

9786610440528

0-19-974869-1

1-60129-707-6

OCLC:

228120261