Mending Bodies, Saving Souls: A History of HospitalsBy chronicling the transformations of hospitals from houses of mercy to tools of 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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amazing book
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hospitals sure do play a vital role in saving lives. i wonder if this book is about the advancement of hospitals?
Contents
| 3 | |
| 15 | |
Shelters and Infirmaries | 69 |
Partnership in Hospital Care | 117 |
Leprosy and Plague | 167 |
Medicalization of the Hospital | 231 |
Hospitals in Post Revolutionary Paris | 289 |
Development of Anesthesia and Antisepsis | 339 |
Hospitals in FindeSiècle Europe and America | 399 |
The American General Hospital as Professional Workshop | 463 |
Government Society and Catholicism in America 19501975 | 513 |
Academic Health Centers and Organ Transplantation | 569 |
AIDS at San Francisco General Hospital | 619 |
Towards the Next Millennium The Future of Hospitals as Healing Spaces | 675 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Mending Bodies, Saving Souls: A History of Hospitals |
| Author | Guenter B. Risse |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 1999 |
| ISBN | 0199748691, 9780199748693 |
| Length | 752 pages |
| Subjects | › Mathematics / History & Philosophy Medical / History Medical / Hospital Administration & Care |
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