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Edition: 1
Release: 2002-12-16
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN/ASIN: 080187064X
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB
Medicine Moves to the Mall (Center Books on Space, Place, and Time) pdf
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The shopping mall seems an unlikely place to go for health care services. Yet, the mall has become home to such services as well as a model for redesigning other health care facilities. In Medicine Moves to the Mall, David Charles Sloane and Beverlie Conant Sloane document the historical changes to our health care landscape by exploring the interactions between medicine and place. This unique combination of architectural history and the history of medicine provides a thought-provoking analysis of the geography of the practice of medicine.The book presents three essays, each accompanied by a gallery of historical and recent photos. The authors discuss the rise of modern hospitals and how they were shaped into scientifically sterile and humanly stark "medical workshops." Starting in the 1970s, hospital facilities were altered in appearance to become more friendly and welcoming. The integration of a shopping mall's spaciousness and open design with technology and scientific innovation se Download Medicine Moves to the Mall (Center Books on Space, Place, and Time) for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve
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