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Health and Architecture - The History of Spaces of Healing and Care in the Pre-Modern Era (Paperback)
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Health and Architecture - The History of Spaces of Healing and Care in the Pre-Modern Era (Paperback)
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Health and Architecture offers a uniquely global overview of the
healthcare facility in the pre-modern era, engaging in a
cross-cultural analysis of the architectural response to medical
developments and the formation of specialized hospitals as an
independent building typology. Whether constructed as part of
Chinese palaces in the 15th century or the religious complexes in
16th century Ottoman Istanbul, the healthcare facility throughout
history is a built environment intended to promote healing and
caring. The essays in this volume address how the relationships
between architectural forms associated with healthcare and other
buildings in the pre-modern era, such as bathhouses, almshouses,
schools and places of worship, reflect changing attitudes towards
healing. They explore the impact of medical advances on the design
of hospitals across various times and geographies, and examine the
historic construction processes and the stylistic connections
between places of care and other building types, and their
development in urban context. Deploying new methodological,
interdisciplinary and comparative approaches to the analysis of
healthcare facilities, Health and Architecture demonstrates how the
spaces of healthcare themselves offer some of the most powerful and
practical articulations of therapy.
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