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Mending bodies, saving souls [[electronic resource] ] : a history of hospitals / / Guenter B. Risse



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Autore: Risse Guenter B. <1932-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Mending bodies, saving souls [[electronic resource] ] : a history of hospitals / / Guenter B. Risse Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York, : Oxford University Press, 1999
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (747 p.)
Disciplina: 362.1/1/09
Soggetto topico: Hospitals - History
Hospital care - History
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Framework for a history of hospitals -- Hospital narratives and case histories -- 1. Pre-Christian Healing Places -- Dreaming of Asclepius: Ancient Greek Temple Healing -- A divine summons to Pergamon -- Asclepius and his cult -- Temple healing: Ideology and patronage -- Staging temple rituals -- Aristides' healing dreams -- Collective Care of Soldiers and Slaves: Roman Valetudinaria -- A young warrior becomes ill -- Building a new professional army -- Valetudinaria: Ideology and mission -- Valetudinaria: Organization and staff -- Soldiers and their care -- Asclepieion and Valetudinarium: Confluence of the Sacred and Secular -- 2. Christian Hospitality: Shelters and Infirmaries -- Early Christianity: A New Vision of the Sick -- Edessa: famine, epidemics, and strangers -- Christianity: Constructing a mission of healing -- Christian welfare: Rise of the xenodocheion -- Slash and burn": Caring for the sick -- Healing at St. Gall: The Golden Age of Benedictine Monasticism -- The abbot of St. Gall takes a fall -- Benedict's monasteries: Ora et labora -- Monastic caring spaces: Infirmary and hostel -- Healing in monasteries: A community approach -- The Twilight of Western Monastic Supremacy -- 3. Church and Laity: Partnership in Hospital Care -- The Pantocrator Xenon of Constantinople -- Tales of a feverish poet -- Post-Justinian Byzantium: Society, medicine, and xenones -- Islam's bimaristan and Christianity's Pantocrator xenon -- Theodores Prodromes and life in the hospital -- Our Patients, Our Lords": The Care of Pilgrims in Jerusalem -- A pilgrimage to Jerusalem c 1172 -- Jerusalem and the Hospital of St. John: Mission and patronage -- Feudal loyalty: Caring for "Our Lords the Sick -- St. John's Hospital: Model for the world -- Hospital Agendas in Peril: Corruption and Early Medicalization.
4. Hospitals as Segregation and Confinement Tools: Leprosy and Plague -- Leper Houses -- A fateful second opinion -- Views of leprosy and the construction of stigma -- Locus of confinement: Anatomy of leper houses -- Institutional rituals -- Pesthouses or Lazarettos -- Trastevere: Rome's early plague spot -- Framing and fighting plague: Pestilence and public health -- Lazarettos: Makeshift isolation, cleansing, and treatment -- From Asclepius to San Bartolomeo: Purification rites -- Frameworks for early medicalization -- Welfare and Hospitals in Early Modern Europe -- 5. Enlightenment: Medicalization of the Hospital -- Edinburgh, 1750-1800 -- Wanted: A letter of recommendation -- Age of Enlightenment: Edinburgh and its infirmary -- Hospital patients and their management -- House of teaching: Clinical instruction and research -- Vienna, 1750-1800 -- Seeking care: A tailor's fate -- Joseph II and Vienna's Allgemeines Krankenhaus -- Johann Peter Frank: Hospital director and Brunonian practitioner -- Clinicum practicum: The patient as teacher -- 6. Human Bodies Revealed: Hospitals in Post Revolutionary Paris -- A former soldier seeks rest -- Ancien Régime: Paris and its hospitals -- Hospital reform: The fate of France's "curing machines -- Bedside and autopsy table: New approaches to disease -- Physical diagnosis: Laennec and the stethoscope -- Life at the Necker Hospital -- Parisian hospitals: Teaching and research -- The patient's body: Centerpiece of medical learning -- 7. Modern Surgery in Hospitals: Development of Anesthesia and Antisepsis -- America: Warren and Anesthesia -- Living in a voluntary American hospital -- Philantropy in Boston: The Massachusetts General Hospital -- Management of pain: A professional goal -- First amputation under ether anesthesia, 1846 -- The significance of ether anesthesia -- Scotland: Lister and Antisepsis.
From the Shetlands to Victorian Edinburgh -- Hospitalism and the "new" nursing -- Lister and the antiseptic system of surgery -- Infirmary life: An eyewitness account -- Providing aseptic surgery: A new role for hospitals -- 8. The Limits of Medical Science: Hospitals in Fin-de-Siècle Europe and America -- Typhoid fever and Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, 1891 -- A bartender with fever -- Hopkins and Billings: Genesis and gestation of a new hospital -- Osler, physicians, and nurses -- Life in the hospital: The healing power of water -- Science and religion: Partners in healing -- Cholera and Eppendorf General Hospital, Hamburg, 1892 -- A frightful collapse -- Eppendorf General Hospital: Model for the world? -- Cholera and hospital caregivers -- Back to water: Managing cholera at the Eppendorf Hospital -- Aftermath -- 9. Main Street's Civic Pride: The American General Hospital as Professional Workshop -- An automobile accident in 1930 -- A public undertaking": American hospitals after 1900 -- Madison, Wisconsin, and its general hospital -- Who pays? "Hospital-hotels" face the Depression -- A new national epidemic: Automobile accidents -- Efficiency versus humanity: Hospital life at MGH -- The road to financial health -- 10. Hospitals at the Crossroads: Government, Society, and Catholicism in America, 1950-1975 -- A sudden heart attack -- Serving the community: Buffalo and Mercy Hospital -- Catholic hospitals: "The fairest flowers of missionary endeavor -- Hospital life at Mercy Hospital, 1954 -- Another heart attack, 1974 -- The impact of Medicare -- Catholic hospitals: Identity crisis and ethical guidelines -- Wired for survival: Life in Mercy's CCU -- Moving forward under God -- 11. Hospitals as Biomedical Showcases: Academic Health Centers and Organ Transplantation -- Searching for a donor -- From teaching hospitals to academic health centers.
Quest for excellence: Moffitt Hospital and UCSF -- Renal transplantation: Scientific, clinical, and professional contours -- World class: Transplantation at UCSF -- Rebirth" at Moffitt Hospital -- Making transplantation routine -- 12. Caring for the Incurable: AIDS at San Francisco General Hospital -- An early AIDS portrait: "Warren -- San Francisco General Hospital: Tradition and evolution -- Framing AIDS in the early 1980s: Lifestyle, cancer, or infection? -- Who "owns" AIDS in San Francisco? Planning Ward 5 B -- Gay pride: Patients' rights and responsibilities -- The art of nursing: Life in Ward 5 B -- Managing death and dying -- The lessons of AIDS -- Conclusion: Towards the Next Millennium: The Future of Hospitals as Healing Spaces -- Evolution of hospitals: A profile -- The new American spirituality -- Consumerism in medicine -- New managerial and financial imperatives -- Hospitals and the humanity of institutional care -- Index.
Sommario/riassunto: Introduction 1. Pre-Christian Healing Places2. Early Christian Hospitality: Shelters and Infirmaries3. Church and Laity: Partnership in Hospital Care4. Hospitals as Segregation and Confinement Tools: Leprosy and Plague5. Enlightenment: Medicalization of the Hospital6. Human Bodies Revealed: Hospitals in Post-Revolutionary Paris7. Modern Surgery in Hospitals: Development of Anesthesia and Antisepsis8. The Limits of Medical Science: Hospitals in Fin de Siecle Europe and America9. Main Streets Civic Pride: The American General Hospital as Professional Workshop10. Hospitals at the Crossroads: Government, Society, and Catholicism in America, 1950-197511. Hospitals as Biomedical Showcases: Academic Health Centers and Organ Transplantation12. Caring for the Incurable: AIDS at San Francisco General Hospital13. Conclusion: Towards the Next Millennium: Hospitals as Houses of Technology.
Titolo autorizzato: Mending bodies, saving souls  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-280-44052-X
9786610440528
0-19-974869-1
1-60129-707-6
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
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