Full Description
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.
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Acknowledgements
Graham Mooney and Jonathan Reinarz: Hospital and Asylum Visiting in Historical Perspective: Themes and Issues
Jonathan Reinarz: Receiving the Rich, Rejecting the Poor: Towards a History of Hospital Visiting in Nineteenth-Century Provincial England
Michelle Renshaw: 'Family-Centred Care' in American Hospitals in Late-Qing China
Andrea Tanner: Care, Nurturance and Morality: The Role of Visitors and the Victorian London Children's Hospital
Bruce Lindsay: Pariahs or Partners? Welcome and Unwelcome Visitors in the Jenny Lind Hospital for Sick Children, Norwich, 1900-50
Robin L. Rohrer: Visiting Children with Cancer: The Parental Experience of the Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, 1995-2005
Graham Mooney: Infection and Citizenship: (Not) Visiting Isolation Hospitals in Mid-Victorian Britain
Kevin Siena: Stage-Managing a Hospital in the Eighteenth Century: Visitation at the London Lock Hospital
Leonard Smith: 'The Keeper Must Himself be Kept': Visitation and the Lunatic Asylum in England, 1750-1850
James H. Mills and Sanjeev Jain: 'A Disgrace to a Civilised Community': Colonial Psychiatry and the Visit of Edward Mapother to South Asia, 1937-8
Janet Miron: 'In View of the Knowledge to be Acquired': Public Visits to New York's Asylums in the Nineteenth Century
Dolly MacKinnon: 'Amusements are Provided': Asylum Entertainment and Recreation in Australia and New Zealand c.1860-c.1945
Catharine Coleborne: Challenging Institutional Hegemony: Family Visitors to Hospitals for the Insane in Australia and New Zealand, 1880s-1910s
Notes on Contributors
Index
