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Permeable walls : historical perspectives on hospital and asylum visiting

Mooney, Graham, Reinarz, Jonathan

Overview

This book 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. However, policies towards visitors have varied from outright exclusion, as in the case of some isolation hospitals in Victorian Britain, to near open access in the first Chinese missionary hospitals. Historical studies of visitors and visiting, as a result, tell us much about the changing relationship between healthcare institutions and the communities they serve. These histories are particularly relevant at a time when service providers seek ways to involve patients' representatives in healthcare decision making; to control hospital super-bugs; and to make the hospital environment accessible yet safe and secure. With the re-emergence of restricted visiting, the subject remains one of the most emotive topics in the history of institutional medicine.

• Publisher: Rodopi
• Subject: Geschichte 1700-2000 / Visiting the sick History. / Hospitals History. / Psychiatric hospitals History. / Medical policy History. / Hospitals, Psychiatric history. / Visitors to Patients history. / Health Policy history. / Hospital-Patient Relations. / Professional-Family Relations. / History, 18th Century. / History, 19th Century. / History, 20th Century. / Hospitals. / Medical policy. / Psychiatric hospitals. / Visiting the sick. / Krankenbesuch / Krankenhaus / Psychiatrische Klinik / Psychiatrische Klinik. / Krankenhaus.
• ISBN: 9042025999, 9789042025998

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
RA964.P47 2009	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE