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Label : Oxford University Press, USA Languages : English,English,English, Manufacturer : Oxford University Press, USA
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By chronicling the transformations of hospitals from houses of mercy to tools for 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 understanding of today's hospitals. The story is told in a dozen episodes which illustrate hospitals in particular times and places, covering important themes and developments in the history of medicine and therapeutics, from ancient Greece to the era of AIDS. This book furnishes a unique insight into the world of meanings and emotions associated with hospital life and patienthood by including narratives by both patients and care givers. By conceiving of hospitals as houses of order capable of taming the chaos associated with suffering, illness, and death, we can better understand the significance of their ritualized routines and rules. From their beginnings, hospitals were places of spiritual and physical recovery. They should continue to respond to all human needs. As traditional testimonials to human empathy and benevolence, hospitals must endure as spaces of healing.
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Rating :  - Want to know why hospitals are the way they are?
I used this book as a source for a research paper on French hospitals in the 17th and 18th centuries. I often got caught up in the other time periods, though, because there was so much to learn. The author covers a lot of ground, in terms of the shifting role of hospitals over time and geography. He includes the training of medical professionals, the involvement of religious personnel and organizations, dietary and daily regimens, diagnosis and treatments, the effects of politics, economics, religion, education, and so forth on how hospitals operated and were viewed. I bought this book for my mother-in-law (a retired RN and nursing instructor) as a Mother's Day gift, and she loves it. I want a copy for myself, because it helped me understand why hospitals are the way they are today, and to appreciate just what we do have available.
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