Permeable Walls - JONATHAN REINARZ [EDS.].|MOONEY, GRAHAM
historical perspectives on hospital and asylum visiting
KORTE INHOUD
Visiting relatives and friends in medical institutions is a common practice in all corners of the world. People probably go into hospitals as a visitor more frequently than they do as a patient.Permeable Walls 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...
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2009Uitgever: RodopiReeks: Clio medica352 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 9042025999ISBN-13: 9789042025998Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Original publisher's paper-covered boards, pictorial frontcover, large 8vo: [vi], 352pp., [10]pp., 13 contributions with illustrations - notes & references, list illustrations, notes on contributors, index. CONTRIBUTIONS: 1. Graham Mooney & Jonathan Reinarz: Hospital and Asylum Visiting in Historical Perspective: Themes and Issues. 2. Jonathan Reinarz: Receiving the Rich, Rejecting the Poor: Towards a History of Hospital Visiting in Nineteenth-Century Provincial England. 3. Michelle Renshaw: ‘Family-...
