Medicine by Design : The Architect and the Modern Hospital, 1893-1943.

By: Adams, AnnmarieMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Architecture, Landscape, and American CulturePublisher: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2008Copyright date: ©2008Description: 1 online resource (198 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780816653997Subject(s): Hospital architecture -- North America -- History | Hospital buildings -- Design and construction -- North America -- HistoryGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Medicine by Design : The Architect and the Modern Hospital, 1893-1943DDC classification: 725 | 725.51 | 725/.51 LOC classification: RA967 -- .A33 2008ebOnline resources: Click to View
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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