Guenter B Risse

Mending Bodies, Saving Souls

A History of Hospitals

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

By chronicling the transformations of hospitals from houses of mercy to tools for confinement, from dwellings of rehabilitation to spaces for clinical teaching and research, from rooms for birthing and dying to institutions of science and technology, this book provides a historical approach to understanding of today's hospitals. The story is told in a dozen episodes which illustrate hospitals in particular times and places, covering important themes and developments in the history of medicine and therapeutics, from ancient Greece to the era of AIDS. This book furnishes a unique insight into the world of meanings and emotions associated with hospital life and patienthood by including narratives by both patients and care givers. By conceiving of hospitals as houses of order capable of taming the chaos associated with suffering, illness, and death, we can better understand the significance of their ritualized routines and rules. From their beginnings, hospitals were places of spiritual and physical recovery. They should continue to respond to all human needs. As traditional testimonials to human empathy and benevolence, hospitals must endure as spaces of healing.

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This is a brilliant, original comprehensive history of the hospital. From the ancient Greek temples to AIDS wards, this book chronicles the hospital's transformation and development into institutions of science and technology. Based on vivid narratives provided by both caregivers and patients, it features a number of hospitals during important periods in the history of medicine and therapeutics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 752
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 245mm x 177mm x 43mm
• Gewicht: 1270g
• ISBN-13: 9780195055238
• ISBN-10: 0195055233
• Artikelnr.: 21078254

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* 1: Pre-Christian Healing Places
* 2: Early Christian Hospitality: Shelters and Infirmaries
* 3: Church and Laity: Partnership in Hospital Care
* 4: Hospitals as Segregation and Confinement Tools: Leprosy and Plague
* 5: Enlightenment: Medicalization of the Hospital
* 6: Human Bodies Revealed: Hospitals in Post-Revolutionary Paris
* 7: Modern Surgery in Hospitals: Development of Anesthesia and
Antisepsis
* 8: The Limits of Medical Science: Hospitals in Fin de Siècle Europe
and America
* 9: Main Streets Civic Pride: The American General Hospital as
Professional Workshop
* 10: Hospitals at the Crossroads: Government, Society, and Catholicism
in America, 1950-1975
* 11: Hospitals as Biomedical Showcases: Academic Health Centers and
Organ Transplantation
* 12: Caring for the Incurable: AIDS at San Francisco General Hospital
* 13: Conclusion: Towards the Next Millennium: Hospitals as Houses of
Technology