Medicine and Magnificence: British Hospital and Asylum Architecture, 1660-1815

Stevenson, Christine

ISBN 10: 0300085362 / ISBN 13: 9780300085365

Edité par New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001

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1st printing. As New hardcover in Fine DJ. Bright, clean, square covers and spine; tightly bound; bright, crisp, clean interior. DJ is bright, clean and complete; faintly shelf-scuffed. Small 4to, 312 pp; index, biblio; illustrated. This is a new, unread book.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Medicine and Magnificence: British Hospital and Asylum Architecture, 1660-1815
• Éditeur: New Haven: Yale University Press
• Date de parution: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0300085362
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780300085365
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• État de l'article: As New
• État de la jaquette: Fine
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Architecture
  • Health
  • History

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Synopsis

The late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries represent a golden age in the design and construction of hospitals and asylums for the insane. In Britain the great veterans' hospitals at Chelsea and Greenwich were erected, the ancient London hospitals completely reconstructed, and more than fifty other hospitals and asylums purpose-built by British charities or by the Navy. This book is the first devoted entirely to these fascinating buildings and to the wide contemporary interest that they aroused. In examining the planning and construction of English and Scottish hospitals in this period, architectural historian Christine Stevenson focuses on what these buildings meant--to architects, builders, donors, physicians, and the public--and how their meanings and functions changed.

Stevenson shows that hospital design was directed by medical theory and concerns to a greater degree than has been previously assumed. But this wide-ranging book is much more than a technical history. Blending social history with the details of construction, Stevenson introduces a large cast of players: voyeuristic women and dreaming engineers, military physicians who destroyed and Freemasons who built. In bringing to life those involved in designing and working in the institutions and those attacking them, too, she offers a new view of architectural, cultural and medical practice in the period as a whole.

Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art

À propos de l?auteur

Christine Stevenson is lecturer in the department of history of art at the University of Reading, England.