Mending bodies, saving souls : a history of hospitals / Guenter B. Risse.

By:

Risse, Guenter B, 1932- [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 1999Description: xx, 716 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0195055233
9780195055238

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

362.1109

LOC classification:

RA964. R57 1999

Contents:

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.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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