Jeanne Kisacky

Rise of the Modern Hospital (eBook, ePUB)

An Architectural History of Health and Healing, 1870-1940

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 premiere locations of cutting-edge medical treatment for all classes, and from low-rise decentralized facilities to high-rise centralized structures.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822981619
• Artikelnr.: 50540051

Autorenporträt

Jeanne Kisacky is an independent scholar. She has taught classes on the topic of health and architecture as an adjunct instructor at Cornell University, Binghamton University, and Syracuse University.