Mending bodies, saving souls : a history of hospitals /
Risse, Guenter B., 1932-
Mending bodies, saving souls : a history of hospitals / Guenter B. Risse. - xx, 716 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
0195055233 9780195055238
98040966
Hospitals--History.
Hospital care--History
History of Medicine
RA964. / R57 1999
362.1109
Mending bodies, saving souls : a history of hospitals / Guenter B. Risse. - xx, 716 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
0195055233 9780195055238
98040966
Hospitals--History.
Hospital care--History
History of Medicine
RA964. / R57 1999
362.1109