Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book

Title Permeable walls : historical perspectives on hospital and asylum visiting / edited by Graham Mooney and Jonathan Reinarz
Published Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2009

Copies

Description 1 online resource (352 pages) : illustrations
Series Clio medica, 0045-7183 ; 86
The Wellcome Institute series in the history of medicine
Clio medica (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ; 86.
Wellcome series in the history of medicine.
Contents List of Tables; Acknowledgements; 1 Hospital and Asylum Visiting in Historical Perspective: Themes and Issues; 2 Receiving the Rich, Rejecting the Poor: Towards a History of Hospital Visiting in Nineteenth-Century Provincial England; 3 'Family-Centred Care' in American Hospitals in Late-Qing China; 4 Care, Nurturance and Morality: The Role of Visitors and the Victorian London Children's Hospital; 5 Pariahs or Partners? Welcome and Unwelcome Visitors in the Jenny Lind Hospital for Sick Children, Norwich, 1900-50
Summary 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. Covering the eighteenth to the late twentieth centuries, and taking case studies from around the globe, the authors demonstrate that hospitals and asylums could be remarkably permeable institutions. However, policies towards visitors have varied from outright exclusion, as in the case of some isolation hospitals in Victorian Britain, to near open access in the first Chinese missionary hospitals. Historical studies of visitors and visiting, as a result, tell us much about the changing relationship between healthcare institutions and the communities they serve. These histories are particularly relevant at a time when service providers seek ways to involve patients' representatives in healthcare decision making; to control hospital super-bugs; and to make the hospital environment accessible yet safe and secure. With the re-emergence of restricted visiting, the subject remains one of the most emotive topics in the history of institutional medicine. Adopting a wide-ranging definition of visitors, from official inquirers to family members, Permeable Walls provides an innovative perspective on hospitals and asylums historically and will interest historians of medicine, charity and governance, as well as healthcare policy-makers
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Visiting the sick -- History
Hospitals -- History
Psychiatric hospitals -- History
Medicine -- History -- 18th century.
Hospitals, Psychiatric -- history
Health Policy -- history
History, 18th Century
History, 19th Century
History, 20th Century
Hospital-Patient Relations
Professional-Family Relations
Visitors to Patients -- history
MEDICAL -- Hospital Administration & Care.
Medicine
Hospitals
Psychiatric hospitals
Visiting the sick
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Mooney, Graham.
Reinarz, Jonathan.
ISBN 9789042026322
9042026324
1282505181
9781282505186
9786612505188
6612505184