| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 448 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| 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. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld. |
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Hospital architecture -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Hospital architecture. |
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United States. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Hospital architecture -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Hospital buildings -- United States -- Design and construction -- History.
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Hospital buildings. |
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Health facilities -- United States -- Design and construction -- History.
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Health facilities. |
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United States. |
| Chronological Term |
1800-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Kisacky, Jeanne Susan. Rise of the modern hospital. Pittsburgh, PA : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2017] 9780822944614 (DLC) 2016054041 (OCoLC)951158160 |
| ISBN |
9780822981619 (electronic book) |
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0822981610 (electronic book) |
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9780822944614 |
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0822944618 |
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