Introduction / Laurinda Abreu and Sally Sheard -- Therapeutic regimes for bodily health in Medieval English hospitals / Christopher Bonfield -- Their daily bread : managing hospital finances in Early Modern Germany / Fritz Dross -- Caring for the 'incurable' in Renaissance pox hospitals / Sharon T. Strocchia -- Medical theory and surgical practice : coping with the French disease in early Renaissance Portugal and Spain / Jon Arrizabalaga -- Training health professionals at the Hospital de Todos os Santos (Lisbon) 1500-1800 / Laurinda Abreu -- Patient care at the Hôtel Royal des Invalides, Paris, 1670-1791 / Elisabeth Belmas -- Conspicuous consumption : the royal lying-in hospital in Copenhagen in the late eighteenth century / Anne Løkke -- Management and therapeutic regimes in two lunatic asylums in Corfu and Malta, 1837-1870 / John Chircop -- Myth, marketing and medicine : life in British children's hospitals 1850-1914 / Andrea Tanner and Sue Hawkins -- Slavery, Southern medicine and the American slave hospital regime, 1830-1860 / Stephen C. Kenny -- 'The fattest possible nurse' : architecture, computers, and post-war nursing / David Theodore -- Getting better, faster : convalescence and length of stay in British and US hospitals / Sally Sheard.
Summary:
"This edited volume originates in the 2011 conference of the International Network for the History of Hospitals, held in Lisbon and Évora, Portugal. It focuses on how institutions for the care and cure of the sick have organised their activities at every level, from the delegation of medical treatments between groups of practitioners, to the provision of food and supplies and the impact of convalescence on lengths of hospital stays. It draws on new European and North American research which highlights an area of medical history that has not yet had adequate, sustained attention, discussing the tensions between theory and practice and between patients and practitioners. Through detailed case studies and comparative analyses it explores the changing and evolving understanding of the function of hospitals, and their wider relationships with their communities."--Publisher description.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.