Main entry:

Goldin, Grace, 1908-1995.

Title & Author:

Work of mercy : a picture history of hospitals / Grace Goldin.

Publication:

Ontario, Canada : Associated Medical Services : Boston Mills Press, [1994]
©1994

Description:

311 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm

Notes:
"Sponsored by: Associated Medical Services, Inc."--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 300-301) and index.
Hospitals and Christianity: The Christian hospital -- The ward-chapel combination -- The hospices civils of Strasbourg -- John o God and his Spanish hospitals -- Cross-shaped hospitals -- Types of Hospitals: The housing of contagion -- On privies and housekeeping -- Small homes for the old -- Medicine and pharmacy -- Opposite ends of the spectrum -- Out of the darkness: the Hotel-Dieu of Paris -- Florence Nightingale -- Pavilions to skyscrapers -- Care of the insane: Restraints -- The rise and fall of moral treatment -- Care of the dying: Modern hospices -- British hospices -- Additional reading -- List of illustrations -- Index.

Summary:

This is the best and most beautifully illustrated history of hospitals available for the lay reader. Goldin, who has studied the development of care facilities for 20 years, weaves photographs and text into a vivid, enticing work. Although most histories of hospitals center on a single facility or region, this work surveys the development of hospitals in the West from the 13th century to the present, with emphasis on hospitals' evolving architectural design. Reproductions of period artwork emphasize for modern readers the development of medical practices through time. The author also points out that hospitals and almshouses were used primarily by poorer people, while the wealthier classes were treated in their homes. More scholarly looks at hospitals include a work coauthored by Goldin, "Hospital: A Social and Architectural History" (Yale Univ. Pr., 1975), and "The Hospital in History," edited by L. Granshaw (Routledge, 1989). However, neither work is as appropriate for the lay reader as "Work of Mercy." Recommended for all libraries. Eric D. Albright, Galter Health Sciences Lib., Northwestern Univ., Chicago Copyright 1995 Cahners Business Information.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

9781550461183
1550461184

Subject:

Hospitals History.
Hospitals History Pictorial works.
Hospital care History.
Hospital care History Pictorial works.
Hospitals history
Hospices history
Hôpitaux Histoire Ouvrages illustrés.
Hôpitaux Histoire.
Soins hospitaliers Histoire.
Soins hospitaliers Histoire Ouvrages illustrés.
Hospital care
Hospitals
HOPITAUX--HISTOIRE.
Europe.

Form/genre:

Pictorial Work
illustrated books.
Illustrated works
History
Pictorial works
Ouvrages illustrés.

Added entries:

Associated Medical Services, Inc.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 220757
Call No.: NA6763.A1 G6 1994
Status: Available