Healthcare Architecture in an Era of Radical Transformation
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: February 9, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780300078398
Subjects: Health systems & services; Public buildings: civic, commercial, industrial, etc; Hospital Administration; Public Buildings Architecture; Architecture; Public, Commercial, or Industrial Buildings; Architecture / Public, Commercial, or Industrial Buildings; General; Design and construction; Health facilities; Hospital architecture
First sentence: To those among us who as children experienced the intimidating aura of the modern hospital, the experience probably left a lifelong imprint.
Description: "This book explores for the first time the dramatic social, technological, and architectural transformation of hospitals during the final decades of the twentieth century. Stephen Verderber and David J. Fine critically examine how and why acute-care hospitals and the often-related psychiatric facilities, retirement communities, and community clinics have changed, for better or for worse."--BOOK JACKET.