Mending bodies, saving souls : a history of hospitals / Guenter B. Risse.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1999.Description: xx, 716 p. : ill. ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0195055233
- 362.1109 21
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
INTRODUCTION ; 1. Pre-Christian Healing Places ; 2. Early Christian Hospitality: Shelters 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 Siecle Europe and America ; 9. Main Streets Civic Pride: The American General Hospital as Professional Workshop ; 10. Hospitals at the Crossroads: Government, Society, and Catholicism in America, 1950-1975 ; 11. Hospitals as Biomedical Showcases: Academic Health Centers and Organ Transplantation ; 12. Caring for the Incurable: AIDS at San Francisco General Hospital ; 13. Conclusion: Towards the Next Millennium: Hospitals as Houses of Technology
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