Rise of the modern hospital : an architectural history of health and healing, 1870-1940 / Jeanne Kisacky.

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.

Health facilities--United States--Design and construction--History.

Health facilities.

Hospital buildings--United States--Design and construction--History.

Hospital buildings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 448 pages) : illustrations ;

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : 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:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1. The Hospital Building as a Means of Disease Prevention, 1700-1873

Chapter 2. The Transformative Potential and Conservative Reality of Germ Theory and Antisepsis, 1874-1877

Chapter 3. The Post-Germ Theory Pavilion in the Dawn of Asepsis, 1878-1897

Chapter 4. Hygienic Decentralization vs. Functional Centralization: Reasons for Continuity and Change, 1898-1917

Chapter 5. The Vertical Hospital as an Attractive Factory, 1917-1929

Chapter 6. The "Meadow Monument to Medicine and Science," 1930-1945

Chapter 7. Postwar Hospital Design Trends

Notes

Bibliographic Essay

Figure Sources and Credits

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780822981619

0822981610

OCLC:

1015260707