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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Otros Autores: | , |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Amsterdam ; New York, NY :
Rodopi,
2009.
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Colección: | Clio medica (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ;
86. Wellcome series in the history of medicine. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.