Mending bodies, saving souls : a history of hospitals / Guenter B. Risse.
Pubblicazione:
New York : Oxford university press, 1999.
Descrizione fisica:
XX, 716 p., 10 p. di tav. : ill. ; 25 cm
Contiene:
Indice: 1. Pre-Christian healing places 2. Christian hospitality: schelters and infirmaries 3. Church and laity: partnership in hospital care 4. Hospitals as segregation and confinement tools: leprosy and plague 5. Enlightenment: medicalization of the hospital 6. Human bodies revealed: hospitals in post revolutionary Paris 7. Modern surgery in hospitals: development of anesthesia and antisepsis 8. The limits of medical science: hospitals in fin-de-siècle Europe and America 9. Main street's civic pride: the America general hospital as professional workshop 10. Hospitals at the crossroad: government, society, and Catholicism in America, 1950-1975 11. Hospitals as biomedical showcases: academic health centers and organ transplantation 12. Caring the incurable: AIDS at San Francisco general hospital. Conclusion: Towards the next millennium, the future of hospitals as healing spaces. Index
Visionato in:
IMSS
ISBN:
0195055233
Discipline:
Medicina--Ospedali e assistenza sociale e sanitaria.
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