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Permeable walls : historical perspectives on hospital and asylum visiting /

Visiting relatives and friends in medical institutions is a common practice in all corners of the world. People probably go into hospitals as a visitor more frequently than they do as a patient. Permeable Walls is the first book devoted to the history of hospital and asylum visiting and deflects att...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Mooney, Graham, Reinarz, Jonathan
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2009.
Colección:Clio medica (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ; 86.
Wellcome series in the history of medicine.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • List of Tables; Acknowledgements; 1 Hospital and Asylum Visiting in Historical Perspective: Themes and Issues; 2 Receiving the Rich, Rejecting the Poor: Towards a History of Hospital Visiting in Nineteenth-Century Provincial England; 3 'Family-Centred Care' in American Hospitals in Late-Qing China; 4 Care, Nurturance and Morality: The Role of Visitors and the Victorian London Children's Hospital; 5 Pariahs or Partners? Welcome and Unwelcome Visitors in the Jenny Lind Hospital for Sick Children, Norwich, 1900-50.