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Author:

Kisacky, Jeanne Susan, author.

Title:

Rise of the modern hospital : an architectural history of health and healing, 1870-1940 / Jeanne Kisacky.

Publisher:

University of Pittsburgh Press,

Copyright Date:

2017

Description:

vii, 448 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Subject:

Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer--Bitterfeld
Hospital architecture--United States--History--19th century.
Hospital architecture--United States--History--20th century.
Hospital buildings--United States--History.--History.
Health facilities--United States--History.--History.
Architecture as Topic--history
Hospital Design and Construction--history.
Delivery of Health Care--history.
History, 19th Century.
History, 20th Century.
Hospitals--history.
United States.
ARCHITECTURE--Modern (late 19th Century to 1945)--Modern (late 19th Century to 1945)
Health facilities--Design and construction.
Hospital architecture.
Hospital buildings--Design and construction.
United States.
Krankenhausbau
44.01 history of medicine.
1800-1999
History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction -- 1. The Hospital Building as a Means of Disease Prevention, 1700-1873 -- 2. The Transformative Potential and Conservative Reality of Germ Theory and Antisepsis, 1874-1877 -- 3. The Post-Germ Theory Pavilion in the Dawn of Asepsis, 1878-1897 -- 4. Hygienic Decentralization vs. Functional Centralization: Reasons for Continuity and Change, 1898-1917 -- 5. The Vertical Hospital as an Attractive Factory, 1917-1929 -- 6. The "Meadow Monument to Medicine and Science," 1930-1945 -- 7. Postwar Hospital Design Trends.

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.

ISBN:

0822944618
9780822944614

OCLC:

(OCoLC)951158160

LCCN:

2016054041

Locations:

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OZAX845 -- Northwestern College - DeWitt Library (Orange City)