Full Description
Tracing Hospital Boundaries explores, for the first time, how the forces of both integration and segregation shaped hospitals and their communities between the eleventh and twentieth centuries in Europe, North America and Africa. Within this broad comparative context it also shines a light on a number of case studies from Southeastern Europe.
The eleven chapters show how people's access to, and experience of, healthcare institutions was affected by social, cultural and economic, as well as medical, dynamics. These same factors intersected with developing healthcare technologies to shape hospital design and location, as well as internal policies and practices. The volume produces a new history of the hospital in which boundaries - both physical and symbolic - are frequently contested and redrawn.
Contributors are Irena Benyovsky Latin, David Gentilcore, Annemarie Kinzelbach, Rina Kralj-Brassard, Ivana Lazarević, Clement Masakure, Anna Peterson, Egidio Priani, Gordan Ravančić, Jonathan Reinarz, Jane Stevens Crawshaw, David Theodore, Christina Vanja, George Weisz, and Valentina Živković.
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Hospitals, Integration and Segregation
Jane Stevens Crawshaw and Gordan Ravančić
Part 1: Patient Identity and Experience
1 Beyond the City's Walls: The Lepers of Narbonne and Siena before the Black Death
Anna M. Peterson
2 Leprosaria: The Simultaneity of Segregation and Integration in Early Modern Southern German Towns
Annemarie Kinzelbach
3 The Role of Segregation and Integration in Identity Formation for Foundlings in Early Modern Dubrovnik
Rina Kralj-Brassard and Ivana Lazarević
4 "San Servolo Lunatic!": Segregation and Integration in the Life Cycle of Pellagra Patients at Venice's Provincial Asylums (1842-1912)
David Gentilcore and Egidio Priani
Part 2: Hospital Form and Organisation
5 Shelter and Custody. Identifying and treating Physical and Mental Disabilities in Eighteenth-Century Hessian High Hospitals
Christina Vanja
6 From Isolation to Integration: the Institutional Treatment of Burns Patients in Britain, c.1845-1950
Jonathan Reinarz
7 Segregating or Integrating Chronic Patients in Twentieth-century American Hospitals
George Weisz
8 "Dirty Dirty Dirt": Automating Segregation in the Friesen Concept Hospital
David Theodore
Part 3: Hospital Location and Context
9 Sacral Topography, Charity and Hospitals in Late Medieval Kotor
Valentina Živković
10 Female Piety and Gendered Spaces: Women's Hospitals in Renaissance Dubrovnik
Irena Benyovsky Latin
11 Government Hospitals as a Microcosm: Integration and Segregation in Salisbury Hospital, Rhodesia, 1890s-1950
Clement Masakure
Thematic bibliography
Index
