Main entry:

Kisacky, Jeanne Susan, author.

Title & Author:

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

Publication:

Pittsburgh, PA : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2017]
©2017

Description:

vii, 448 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Dust jacket.

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:

9780822944614 (hardcover ; acid-free paper)
0822944618 (hardcover ; acid-free paper)

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 Design and construction History.
Health facilities United States Design and construction History.
Architecture as Topic history
Hospital Design and Construction history
Delivery of Health Care history
History, 19th Century
History, 20th Century
Hospitals history
Architecture hospitalière États-Unis Histoire 19e siècle.
Architecture hospitalière États-Unis Histoire 20e siècle.
Hôpitaux (Édifices) États-Unis Conception et construction Histoire.
Médecine Histoire 19e siècle.
Médecine Histoire 20e siècle.
44.01 history of medicine.
ARCHITECTURE History Modern (late 19th Century to 1945)
Health facilities Design and construction.
Hospital architecture.
Hospital buildings Design and construction.
Krankenhausbau
ARCHITECTURE / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945)
United States

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 297948
Call No.: BIB 244260
Status: Available