Architecture and the Modern Hospital : Nosokomeion to Hygeia / Julie Willis, Philip Goad, Cameron Logan
Publication year: 2020
ISBN: 9780415815338
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Explores the rapid evolution of hospital design in the twentieth century, analysing the ways in which architects and other specialists reimagined the modern hospital. It examines how the vast expansion of medical institutions over the course of the century was enabled by new approaches to architectural design and it highlights the emerging political conviction that physical health would become the cornerstone of human welfare.
Subject: Architecture Buildings Public, Architecture Industrial Buildings, Architecture hospitalière Histoire 20e siècle, Delivery of Health Care history, Equipment and Supplies, Hospital history, Hospital Design and Construction, Hospital architecture, Hospital architecture History 20th century, Hospital buildings Design and construction, Hospitals history, Hôpitaux (Édifices) Conception et construction, Médecine Histoire 20e siècle
