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

• Autore: Risse Guenter B. <1932->
• Pubblicazione: New York ; , : Oxford University Press, , 2023
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (747 p.)
• Disciplina: 362.1/1/09
• Soggetto topico: Hospitals - History; Hospital care - History
• Note generali: Previously issued in print: 1999.
• 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: By chronicling the transformations of hospitals from houses of mercy to tools for confinement, from dwellings of rehabilitation to spaces for clinical teaching and research, this book provides historical approach to understanding today's hospitals.
• Titolo autorizzato: Mending bodies, saving souls
• ISBN: 0-19-770758-0; 1-280-44052-X; 9786610440528; 0-19-974869-1; 1-60129-707-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910824182103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Oxford scholarship online.