Hospital Buildings in Germany: General Hospitals And Health Centres

Christoph Schirmer, Philipp Meuser
New Hospital Buildings in Germany: General Hospitals And Health Centres
Page One Publishing Private | 2007 | ISBN: 9812454934 | 304 pages | PDF | 79,7 MB
Hospital Architecture: General Hospitals and Health Centers is an extensive and detailed collection of architecture in the many facets of contemporary health care provision. Tapping on the experience of experts in their fields, this volume presents about fifty general hospitals and health centers, and features perceptive commentary on basic subjects in hospital architecture including examination, treatment, nursing, and care. Illustrated with a wealth of photographs and floor plans, this reference is designed to facilitate easy comparison of the buildings in terms of size and function, including examination, treatment, care, administration, social services, research and education, and operational and technical facilities

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Healthy Living Centres: A Guide to Primary Health Care Design

Geoffrey Purves "Healthy Living Centres: A Guide to Primary Health Care Design"
Architectural Press | August 2002 | ISBN : 0750646020 | PDF Format, 241 pages | 35.7 MB
This is a hands-on 'how to do it' guide to satisfy changing policy objectives, offering an up to date methodology to encourage a holistic approach to health care buildings which will be of interest to both architectural and medical professionals.

By exploring the design process this book looks at the relationship between the architectural and medical professions to see how the next wave of Government health policies can be best provided for. The aim is to raise the quality of health buildings in the primary care sector.

Greater flexibility will be required as the medical profession moves towards a pro-active attitude to Healthy Living Centres rather than the traditional reactive treatment to cure disease.

Some of the highlighted fetures of this book :
• Gain comprehensive technical coverage of primary health care planning & design
• Learn about the approach taken by designers through international examples and illustrations and inspire your own designs
• Explore the relationship between the architectural and medical professions and learn how best to provide for both the designer and the client

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The Architecture of Madness: Insane Asylums in the United States

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"The Architecture of Madness: Insane Asylums in the United States"
Univ Of Minnesota Press | Pages: 256 | 2007-04-19 | ISBN: 0816649391 |

Elaborately conceived, grandly constructed insane asylums—ranging in appearance from classical temples to Gothic castles—were once a common sight looming on the outskirts of American towns and cities. Many of these buildings were razed long ago, and those that remain stand as grim reminders of an often cruel system. For much of the nineteenth century, however, these asylums epitomized the widely held belief among doctors and social reformers that insanity was a curable disease and that environment—architecture in particular—was the most effective means of treatment.

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