Permeable walls: historical perspectives on hospital and asylum visiting
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Amsterdam Rodopi 2009
Schriftenreihe:Clio medica (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 86
Wellcome series in the history of medicine
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
List of Tables; Acknowledgements; 1 Hospital and Asylum Visiting in Historical Perspective: Themes and Issues; 2 Receiving the Rich, Rejecting the Poor: Towards a History of Hospital Visiting in Nineteenth-Century Provincial England; 3 'Family-Centred Care' in American Hospitals in Late-Qing China; 4 Care, Nurturance and Morality: The Role of Visitors and the Victorian London Children's Hospital; 5 Pariahs or Partners? Welcome and Unwelcome Visitors in the Jenny Lind Hospital for Sick Children, Norwich, 1900-50
Visiting relatives and friends in medical institutions is a common practice in all corners of the world. People probably go into hospitals as a visitor more frequently than they do as a patient. Permeable Walls is the first book devoted to the history of hospital and asylum visiting and deflects attention from medical history's more traditionally studied constituencies, patients and doctors. Covering the eighteenth to the late twentieth centuries, and taking case studies from around the globe, the authors demonstrate that hospitals and asylums could be remarkably permeable institutions. Howeve
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ISBN:9042025999
9042026324
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