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Author Cheatle, Emma

Title Lying in the Dark Room Architectures of British Maternity
Published Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2023

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Description 1 online resource (215 p.)
Series Routledge Research in Architecture Series
Routledge research in architecture.
Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- British Maternity -- Towards Methodology -- Structure -- Ensemble-Writing A Creative-Critical Architectural History -- The Archives -- Novels to Autofiction -- Oral Histories -- Storytelling -- Autotheory -- Picture Theory -- Creating Creative-Critical Architectural History -- 1 The Dark and Airless Room -- The Beginning, 1996 -- The Darkened Room, 1736 -- House -- The Darkened Room -- Street -- The Darkened Room -- Midwife -- Light, Heat and Air
Midwife -- Linen -- The Darkened Room -- Street -- Husband -- 1996 -- 2 The Man-Midwife Enters -- 1998 -- The Attics, 1813 -- The Man-Midwife -- The Barbershop -- Box -- The Masculine Room -- Box -- 1998 -- Picture Archive -- 3 Building Hospitals, Building Bodies: The Hospital for Lying-in -- 2000 -- Death in The Wings -- 2000 -- The Hospital for Lying-In -- The Man-Midwife -- The Hospital for Lying-In -- 2000 -- Handrail -- The New Body -- Material Object -- The Hospital for Lying-In Seeps into The Home -- Midwife -- 2000 -- House -- Death in The Wings -- 2005
4 Commonplaces-Species of Maternal Spaces -- Lively Things- -- Commonplaces- -- Entrance -- Corridor -- Waiting Room -- Delivery Room -- Ward -- Bed -- Window -- Bath -- Washbasin -- Laundry Room -- The Chapel -- Inside Out- -- After Birth-Lying-In as Autotheoretical Spatial Production -- End- -- Index
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Subject Architecture -- Health aspects -- Great Britain -- History
Childbirth -- Great Britain -- History
Health facilities -- Great Britain -- Design and construction -- History
Maternal health services -- Great Britain -- History
Women's hospitals -- Great Britain -- Design and construction -- History
Architecture -- Health aspects.
Childbirth.
Health facilities -- Design and construction.
Maternal health services.
Great Britain.
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781003811374
100381137X