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

• Autore: Adams Annmarie
• Pubblicazione: Minneapolis : , : University of Minnesota Press, , c2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xxv, 169 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 725; 725.51; 725/.51
• Soggetto topico: Hospital architecture - North America - History; Hospital buildings - Design and construction - North America - History; ARCHITECTURE - Buildings - Public, Commercial & Industrial; ARCHITECTURE - History - General; Hospital architecture; Hospital buildings - Design and construction
• Soggetto geografico: North America
• Soggetto genere / forma: History
• 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.
• Altri titoli varianti: Architect and the modern hospital, 1893-1943
• Titolo autorizzato: Medicine by design
• ISBN: 0-8166-5399-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910778250903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Architecture, landscape, and American culture series.