Adams, Annmarie.

Medicine by Design : The Architect and the Modern Hospital, 1893-1943. - 1 online resource (198 pages) - Architecture, Landscape, and American Culture . - Architecture, Landscape, and American Culture .

Intro -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 1893 -- 2 Patients -- 3 Nurses -- 4 Architects and Doctors -- 5 Modernisms -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- ILLUSTRATION CREDITS -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.

Medicine by Design examines how hospital design influenced the development of twentieth-century medicine and demonstrates the importance of these specialized buildings in the history of architecture. Annmarie Adams uses the ÒRoyal VicÓÑalong with other hospitalsÑto explore issues in architecture and medicine, including the role of gender and class in both fields and the transformation of patients into consumers.

9780816653997


Hospital architecture -- North America -- History.
Hospital buildings -- Design and construction -- North America -- History.


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