The Making of Modern Hospitals in Central Europe between the Enlightenment and the Second World War / edited by Zdeněk Nebřenský and Daniela Tinková.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nebřenský, Zdeněk, editor.

Tinková, Daniela, editor.

Series:

Clio Medica ; 109.

Early Modern History and Modern History E-Books online, Collection 2026.

Clio Medica ; 109

Early Modern History and Modern History E-Books online, Collection 2026

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History.

Early Modern History.

History of Science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (344 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : BRILL, 2026.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book attempts to fill an existing gap in the history of modern medicine by examining Central European hospitals. It does not subscribe to the “big bang theory” of the sudden rise of the modern hospital. Instead, it traces the (micro-)history of the municipal, university, and church hospitals, as well as the provincial institutions for the mentally ill. It raises the question of how authorities, burghers, physicians, patients, and staff dismantled caregiving premises and promoted the establishment of modern healthcare infrastructures while Central Europe was still widely associated with menacing plague and cholera epidemics. Contributors are: Zdeněk Nebřenský, Ludwig Pelzl, Ingrid Kušniráková, Ivana Horbec, Eva Hajdinová, Daniela Tinková, Pavlína Pončíková, Janka Kovács, Martynas Jakulis, Piotr Franaszek, and Barbora Rambousková.

Contents:

Front Cover

Half Title

Series Informations

Title Page

Copyrights Page

Contents

Preface

Figures, Maps and Tables

Figures

Maps

Tables

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

1 Institutionalization

2 Medical Knowledge

3 Political Economy

1 On the Eve of Modernization: Enlightenment Reforms of Institutional Provision in Germany

1 Corrodies as Tools of Early Modern Institutional Provision

2 Emergence and Political Ramifications of Corrodies

3 The Würzburg Bürgerspital and Hospital Sources

4 Reforming Corrodies in Würzburg

5 Conclusion

2 Building the City Hospital under State Control

1 Municipal and General Hospitals

2 The Decision to Found a Municipal Hospital in Pest and the Search for Its Optimal Form

3 The Project for the Municipal Hospital in Pest

4 The Construction of the Hospital, Its Statute and the Conditions for the Admission of Patients

Acknowledgement

3 Under the Patronage of the Viennese Court: the Medicalization of Hospitals in the Croatian Lands

1 Enlightenment Hospital Policy

2 The Military Frontier: a Necessity as a Predecessor of Organized Medical Institutions?

3 First Hospitals of New Type in Civil Croatia

4 Conclusion

4 Neither State nor Private: the Care of Body and Soul in the Prague Hospitals

1 Brothers and Sisters of Mercy: the Establishment of Convent Hospitals in Prague

2 Institutionalization of Care for the Mentally Ill in the Convent Hospitals

3 The Mentally Ill Patients in the Convent Hospitals

4 Treatment of Patients in Convent Hospitals

5 At the Forefront of Psychiatric Care in the Monarchy: the Prague Mental Asylum

1 From Tollhaus to Irrenanstalt: Institutionalization of the Prague Facility for the Mentally Ill.

2 Expansion of Capacities and Acquisition of Further Buildings

3 Division and Classification of Patients

4 Disciplining and Healing

5 Institutionalization of Psychiatric Training

6 Conclusion

6 The Persistence of Provincial Autonomy: Habsburg Governance and Institutional Care of the Mentally

1 Enlightenment Transformation

2 Revolutionizing Hospital Administration

3 Arrangement of the New Institute

7 With the Emperor's Support: Plans and Obstacles of Psychiatric Institutionalization in Hungary

1 The Idea of an Asylum Is Born: Motivations and Obstacles

2 Searching for Models: the First Realistic Plans?

3 The Decades-Long Struggle Comes to an End: Planning a New Asylum for Hungary

4 Preparing for the Opening of an Asylum: Technological Travels and Reform Plans

Appendix

8 Between Religious and Imperial Scrutiny: Continuity and Change in the Operation

1 Attempts to Reform Charity in Vilnius before 1795

2 The Establishment of the General Hospital in Vilnius

3 Administration and Organization

4 Funding

5 Functions

9 Interlocking Interests: State Building and the Administration of St. Lazarus Hospital in Kraków

1 Enlightenment Hospitals in Kraków

2 St. Lazarus Hospital on the Way to Autonomy

3 St. Lazarus Hospital at the Height of Modern Nation Building

10 Coping with Imperial Legacy: the Epistemic Community at the General Hospital in Prague, 1902-1939

1 The General Hospital and Clinical Training in Prague

2 The Division of University and Its Aftermath

3 The Foundation of the Second Internal Clinic

4 The Second Internal Clinic after the First World War

5 Second Internal Clinic as Epistemic Community

Conclusion

Bibliography.

Archival Sources

Printed Primary Sources

Secondary Sources

Index of Names

Back Cover.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Nebřenský, Zdeněk The Making of Modern Hospitals in Central Europe Between the Enlightenment and the Second World War

ISBN:

9789004755062

OCLC:

1600523484

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004755062 DOI