Sloane Medicine Moves to the Mall

Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-0-8018-7768-1
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 0 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 203 mm

Reihe: Center Books on Space, Place, and Time

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sloane, David Charles

Sloane, Beverlie Conant

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Public Health, Gesundheitsmanagement, Gesundheitsökonomie, Gesundheitspolitik
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Gebäudetypen Öffentliche Gebäude, Gewerbliche Bauten
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Garten- und Landschaftsarchitektur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface and Acknowledgements
Prologue. The Evolving Architecture of Healthcare
Gallery 1. Machine Medicine
Chapter 1. The Medical Workshop
Gallery 2. Mall Medicine
Chapter 2. Humanizing the Hospital
Gallery 3. Mall Medicine
Chapter 3. Shopping for Healthcare
Epilogue. Orchestrating Healthcare
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Sloane, David Charles
David C. Sloane teaches at Dartmouth Medical School. Four generations of his family have designed, landscaped, and managed cemeteries in Ohio and New York.Creating the North American Landscape.Gregory Conniff, Bonnie Loyd, and David Schuyler, Consulting Editors.

David Charles Sloane is an associate professor of policy, planning, and development, and Beverlie Conant Sloane is a clinical associate professor of family medicine, at the University of Southern California.