Medicine Moves To The Mall

Author : David Charles Sloane,Beverlie Conant Sloane
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2003-04-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780801877681

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Medicine Moves to the Mall by David Charles Sloane,Beverlie Conant Sloane Pdf

The shopping mall seems an unlikely place to go for health care services. Yet, the mall has become home to such services as well as a model for redesigning other health care facilities. In Medicine Moves to the Mall, David Charles Sloane and Beverlie Conant Sloane document the historical changes to our health care landscape by exploring the interactions between medicine and place. This unique combination of architectural history and the history of medicine provides a thought-provoking analysis of the geography of the practice of medicine. The book presents three essays, each accompanied by a gallery of historical and recent photos. The authors discuss the rise of modern hospitals and how they were shaped into scientifically sterile and humanly stark "medical workshops." Starting in the 1970s, hospital facilities were altered in appearance to become more friendly and welcoming. The integration of a shopping mall's spaciousness and open design with technology and scientific innovation served in "humanizing the hospital." Most recently, the accessibility and convenience of shopping center and roadside clinics have invited Americans to go "shopping for health" in the increasingly commercialized medical system. Medicine Moves to the Mall will appeal to scholars and professionals in fields ranging from health care to cultural geography and from urban studies to architectural history, as well as to readers interested in the shifting status of medicine in American society.

Author : Jeanne Kisacky
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-24
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780822981619

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Rise of the Modern Hospital by Jeanne Kisacky Pdf

Rise of the Modern Hospital is a focused examination of hospital design in the United States from the 1870s through the 1940s. This understudied period witnessed profound changes in hospitals as they shifted from last charitable resorts for the sick poor to premier locations of cutting-edge medical treatment for all classes, and from low-rise decentralized facilities to high-rise centralized structures. Jeanne Kisacky reveals the changing role of the hospital within the city, the competing claims of doctors and architects for expertise in hospital design, and the influence of new medical theories and practices on established traditions. She traces the dilemma designers faced between creating an environment that could function as a therapy in and of itself and an environment that was essentially a tool for the facilitation of increasingly technologically assisted medical procedures. Heavily illustrated with floor plans, drawings, and photographs, this book considers the hospital building as both a cultural artifact, revelatory of external medical and social change, and a cultural determinant, actively shaping what could and did take place within hospitals.

Author : Ann Sloan Devlin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2010-05-31
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780521734356

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What Americans Build and Why by Ann Sloan Devlin Pdf

Examines five areas of Americans' built environment and looks at the relationships of size and scale to the way Americans live their lives.

Author : Ann Sloan Devlin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-24
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317750017

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Transforming the Doctor's Office by Ann Sloan Devlin Pdf

From the parking lot to the exam room, doctors can improve the physical surroundings for their patients, yet often they do not. Given the numerous and varied duties doctors must perform, it may fall to the design profession to implement changes, many based on research, to improve healthcare experiences. From location and layout to furnishings and positive distractions, this book provides evidence-based information about the physical environment to help doctors and those who design medical workspaces improve the experience of health care. Along with its research base, a special aspect of this book is the integration of relevant historical material about the office practice of physicians at the beginning of the twentieth century. Many of their design solutions are viable today. In addition to improving the physical design of healthcare facilities, author Ann Sloan Devlin is the granddaughter, daughter, and niece of physicians, as well as the granddaughter and daughter of nurses. She worked in a hospital during college, and has visited a good many practitioners’ offices in medical office buildings and ambulatory care settings. This book addresses an overlooked location of care: the doctor’s office suite.

Author : Brian Lonsway
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781134718290

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Making Leisure Work by Brian Lonsway Pdf

Contemporary architecture of theme-based design is examined in this book, leading to a new understanding of architecture's role in the increasingly diversified consumer environment. It explores the ‘Experience Economy’ to reveal how everyday environments strategically and opportunistically blur our leisure, work, and personal life experiences. Considering scientific design research, consumer psychology, and Hollywood story-telling techniques, the book looks at how the design of theme parks, casinos, and shopping malls has influenced our more unexpectedly themed spaces, from the city to the hospital. Widely taking architecture as a social practice, this text is of relevance to all cultural and sociological studies in the built and material environment.

Author : Kirsten Ostherr
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-11
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780199737246

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Medical Visions by Kirsten Ostherr Pdf

This book explores 120 years of medical image-making to explain how visual representations came to play a central role in medical education and practice. She demonstrates how medical images acquire cultural meaning and influence, shaping professional and popular understandings of health and disease.

Author : Terri Peters
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781119162131

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Design for Health by Terri Peters Pdf

Design for Health: Sustainable Approaches to Therapeutic Architecture Guest-Edited by Terri Peters This issue of AD seeks out innovative and varied sustainable architectural responses to designing for health, such as: integrating sensory gardens and landscapes into the care environment; specifying local materials and passive technologies; and reinvigorating aging postwar facilities. Contributors include: Anne-Marie Adams, Sean Ahlquist, Giuseppe Boscherini, Robin Guenther, Charles Jencks, Richard Mazuch, Stephen Verderber, Featured architects: 100% Interior, Arup, C.F. Møller, Lyons, MASS Design Group, Mongomery Sisam Architects, Penoyre & Prasad

Author : Christina Buse,Daryl Martin,Sarah Nettleton
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781119499732

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Materialities of Care by Christina Buse,Daryl Martin,Sarah Nettleton Pdf

Materialities of Care addresses the role of material culture within health and social care encounters, including everyday objects, dress, furniture and architecture. Makes visible the mundane and often unnoticed aspects of material culture and attends to interrelations between materials and care in practice Examines material practice across a range of clinical and non-clinical spaces including hospitals, hospices, care homes, museums, domestic spaces and community spaces such as shops and tenement stairwells Addresses fleeting moments of care, as well as choreographed routines that order bodies and materials Focuses on practice and relations between materials and care as ongoing, emergent and processual International contributions from leading scholars draw attention to methodological approaches for capturing the material and sensory aspects of health and social care encounters

Author : John C. Burnham
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-15
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781421416090

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Health Care in America by John C. Burnham Pdf

A comprehensive history of sickness, health, and medicine in America from Colonial times to the present. In Health Care in America, historian John C. Burnham describes changes over four centuries of medicine and public health in America. Beginning with seventeenth-century concerns over personal and neighborhood illnesses, Burnham concludes with the arrival of a new epoch in American medicine and health care at the turn of the twenty-first century. From the 1600s through the 1990s, Americans turned to a variety of healers, practices, and institutions in their efforts to prevent and survive epidemics of smallpox, yellow fever, cholera, influenza, polio, and AIDS. Health care workers in all periods attended births and deaths and cared for people who had injuries, disabilities, and chronic diseases. Drawing on primary sources, classic scholarship, and a vast body of recent literature in the history of medicine and public health, Burnham finds that traditional healing, care, and medicine dominated the United States until the late nineteenth century, when antiseptic/aseptic surgery and germ theory initiated an intellectual, social, and technical transformation. He divides the age of modern medicine into several eras: physiological medicine (1910s–1930s), antibiotics (1930s–1950s), technology (1950s–1960s), environmental medicine (1970s–1980s), and, beginning around 1990, genetic medicine. The cumulating developments in each era led to today's radically altered doctor-patient relationship and the insistent questions that swirl around the financial cost of health care. Burnham's sweeping narrative makes sense of medical practice, medical research, and human frailties and foibles, opening the door to a new understanding of our current concerns.

Author : Cheryl Krasnick Warsh
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2011-07-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781554582488

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Gender, Health, and Popular Culture by Cheryl Krasnick Warsh Pdf

Health is a gendered concept in Western cultures. Customarily it is associated with strength in men and beauty in women. This gendered concept was transmitted through visual representations of the ideal female and male bodies, and ubiquitous media images resulted in the absorption of universal standards of beauty and health and generalized desires to achieve them. Today, genuine or self-styled experts—from physicians to newspaper columnists to advertisers—offer advice on achieving optimal health. Topics in this collection are wide ranging and include childbirth advice in Victorian Australia and Cold War America, menstruation films, Canadian abortion tourism, the Pap smear, the Body Worlds exhibition, and fat liberation. Masculinity is explored among drunkards in antebellum Philadelphia and family memoirs during the 1980s AIDS epidemic. Seemingly objective public health advisories are shown to be as influenced by commercial interests, class, gender, and other social differentiations as marketing approaches are, and the message presented is mediated to varying degrees by those receiving it. This book will be of interest to scholars in women’s studies, health studies, marketing, media studies, social history and anthropology, and popular culture.

Author : Rosemary A. Stevens,Charles E. Rosenberg,Lawton R. Burns
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2006-06-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780813539874

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History and Health Policy in the United States by Rosemary A. Stevens,Charles E. Rosenberg,Lawton R. Burns Pdf

In our rapidly advancing scientific and technological world, many take great pride and comfort in believing that we are on the threshold of new ways of thinking, living, and understanding ourselves. But despite dramatic discoveries that appear in every way to herald the future, legacies still carry great weight. Even in swiftly developing fields such as health and medicine, most systems and policies embody a sequence of earlier ideas and preexisting patterns. In History and Health Policy in the United States, seventeen leading scholars of history, the history of medicine, bioethics, law, health policy, sociology, and organizational theory make the case for the usefulness of history in evaluating and formulating health policy today. In looking at issues as varied as the consumer economy, risk, and the plight of the uninsured, the contributors uncover the often unstated assumptions that shape the way we think about technology, the role of government, and contemporary medicine. They show how historical perspectives can help policymakers avoid the pitfalls of partisan, outdated, or merely fashionable approaches, as well as how knowledge of previous systems can offer alternatives when policy directions seem unclear. Together, the essays argue that it is only by knowing where we have been that we can begin to understand health services today or speculate on policies for tomorrow.

Author : Chris Wilson,Paul Erling Groth
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2003-02
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780520229600

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Everyday America by Chris Wilson,Paul Erling Groth Pdf

A collection of seventeen essays examining the field of American cultural landscapes past and present. The role of J. B. Jackson and his influence on the field is a explored in many of them.

Author : Tom Mueller
Publisher : Profile Books
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781800818446

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How to Make a Killing by Tom Mueller Pdf

'A terrifying story of profit before patients, and a chilling glimpse of what can happen when private companies are allowed to take charge of healthcare.' Gavin Francis Six decades ago, researchers achieved the impossible: developing a treatment that transformed kidney failure from a death sentence to a manageable condition. Yet, in the hands of a predatory medical industry, this triumph led to skyrocketing costs and worsening care. A gripping account of privatised healthcare gone wrong, How to Make a Killing recounts how the optimism of the 1950s and 1960s - when transplants and dialysis machines offered hope - gave way to anguished debates about the ethics of rationing and profiting from life-saving care, and how Big Dialysis proliferated at the expense of its patients. A triumph of investigative research, Tom Mueller's book features an unforgettable cast of characters: CEOs who dress as musketeers to exhort more aggressive profit-seeking, nephrologist insiders who reveal the substandard care this causes, and heroic patients who risk their lives to reveal the truth.

Author : Stephen Verderber
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780415665322

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Sprawling Cities and Our Endangered Public Health by Stephen Verderber Pdf

Sprawl is an unsustainable pattern of growth that threatens to undermine the health of communities globally; this book examines the past and present role of architecture in relation to the public health consequences of unmitigated sprawl and the ways in which it threatens our future.

Author : National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Medicine
ISBN : IND:30000106673050

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National Library of Medicine News by National Library of Medicine (U.S.) Pdf