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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452011803321

Autore

Adams Annmarie

Titolo

Medicine by design [[electronic resource] ] : the architect and the modern hospital, 1893-1943 / / Annmarie Adams

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2008

ISBN

0-8166-5399-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (198 p.)

Collana

Architecture, landscape, and American culture series

Disciplina

725

725.51

725/.51

Soggetti

Hospital architecture - North America - History

Hospital buildings - Design and construction - North America - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Chapters previously published in various books and journals.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [147]-159) and index.

Nota di contenuto

1893 -- Patients -- Nurses -- Architects and doctors -- Modernisms.

Sommario/riassunto

Medicine by Design examines how hospital design influenced the development of twentieth-century medicine and demonstrates the importance of these specialized buildings in the history of architecture. Annmarie Adams uses the ÒRoyal VicÓÑalong with other hospitalsÑto explore issues in architecture and medicine, including the role of gender and class in both fields and the transformation of patients into consumers.