Medicine by Design
Medicine by Design: The Architect and the Modern Hospital, 1893-1943 (Architecture, Landscape, and American Culture) by Annmarie Adams
English | 30 Jan. 2008 | ISBN: 0816651132, 0816651140 | 198 Pages | PDF | 7 MB
English | 30 Jan. 2008 | ISBN: 0816651132, 0816651140 | 198 Pages | PDF | 7 MB
In the history of medicine, hospitals are usually seen as passive reflections of advances in medical knowledge and technology. In Medicine by Design, " Annmarie Adams challenges these assumptions, examining how hospital design influenced the development of twentieth-century medicine and demonstrating the importance of these specialized buildings in the history of architecture.