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Author Adams, Annmarie.

Title Medicine by design : the architect and the modern hospital, 1893-1943 / Annmarie Adams
Published Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (xxv, 169 pages) : illustrations
Series Architecture, landscape, and American culture series
Architecture, landscape, and American culture series.
Contents 1893 -- Patients -- Nurses -- Architects and doctors -- Modernisms
Summary Medicine by Design examines how hospital design influenced the development of twentieth-century medicine and demonstrates the importance of these specialized buildings in the history of architecture. Annmarie Adams uses the Royal Vicalong with other hospitalsto explore issues in architecture and medicine, including the role of gender and class in both fields and the transformation of patients into consumers
Notes Chapters previously published in various books and journals
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-159) and index
Notes English
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Subject Hospital architecture -- North America -- History
Hospital buildings -- North America -- Design and construction -- History
Hospital Design and Construction -- trends
History, 19th Century
History, 20th Century
ARCHITECTURE -- Buildings -- Public, Commercial & Industrial.
ARCHITECTURE -- History -- General.
Hospital architecture
Hospital buildings -- Design and construction
SUBJECT Canada
Subject North America
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780816653997
0816653992