Bibliograph

Mending bodies, saving souls, a history of hospitals, Guenter B. Risse

Type

Label

Mending bodies, saving souls, a history of hospitals, Guenter B. Risse

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Mending bodies, saving souls

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

40120280

Responsibility statement

Guenter B. Risse

Sub title

a history of hospitals

Table Of Contents

Ch. 1. Pre-Christian healing places -- Ch. 2. Christian hospitality: shelters and infirmaries -- Ch. 3. Church and laity: partnership in hospital care -- Ch. 4. Hospitals as segregation and confinement tools: leprosy and plague -- Ch. 5. Enlightenment: medicalization of the hospital -- Ch. 6. Human bodies revealed: hospitals in post revolutionary Paris -- Ch. 7. Modern surgery in hospitals: development of anesthesia and antisepsisCh. 8. The limits of medical science: hospitals in Fin-de-Siècle Europe and America -- Ch. 9. Main street's civic pride: the American general hospital as professional workshop -- Ch. 10. Hospitals at the crossroads: government, society, and catholicism in America, 1950-1975 -- Ch. 11. Hospitals as biomedical showcases: academic health centers and organ transplantation -- Ch. 12. Caring for the incurable: AIDS at San Francisco General Hospital -- Conclusion: Towards the next millennium: the future of hospitals as healing spaces

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