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Mending bodies, saving souls : a history of hospitals /
"By chronicling the transformation of hospitals from houses of mercy to tools of confinement, from dwellings of rehabilitation to spaces for clinical teaching and research, from rooms for birthing and dying to institutions of science and technology, this book provides a historical approach to u...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1999.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Ch. 1. Pre-Christian healing places
- Ch. 2. Christian hospitality: shelters and infirmaries
- Ch. 3. Church and laity: partnership in hospital care
- Ch. 4. Hospitals as segregation and confinement tools: leprosy and plague
- Ch. 5. Enlightenment: medicalization of the hospital
- Ch. 6. Human bodies revealed: hospitals in post revolutionary Paris
- Ch. 7. Modern surgery in hospitals: development of anesthesia and antisepsis.
- Ch. 8. The limits of medical science: hospitals in fin-de-siècle Europe and America
- Ch. 9. Main Street's civic pride: the American general hospital as professional workshop
- Ch. 10. Hospitals at the crossroads: government, society, and Catholicism in America, 1950-1975
- Ch. 11. Hospitals as biomedical showcases: academic health centers and organ transplantation
- Ch. 12. Caring for the incurable: AIDS at San Francisco General Hospital
- Conclusion: Towards the next millennium: the future of hospitals as healing spaces.