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9780300078398

Healthcare Architecture in an Era of Radical Transformation

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  • ISBN13:

    9780300078398

  • ISBN10:

    0300078390

  • Format: Trade Book
  • Copyright: 2000-02-09
  • Publisher: Yale University Press
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Summary

In the 1960s and 1970s large, high-technology, inpatient oriented hospitals reflected the central role of such facilities in an expanding healthcare system. But hospital architecture and the healthcare system have vastly changed since then, in profound and unpredicted ways. This book explores for the first time how and why acute care hospitals and the often related psychiatric facilities, retirement communities, and community clinics have been transformed during the final decades of the twentieth century.

The authors also consider utopian visions of unbuilt work and look ahead to the possible healthcare landscape of the future: "health villages", home-based care for the aging and aged population, and cyberclinics and virtual hospitals.

Author Biography

David J. Fine is Regents Professor and chair of the department of health systems management at Tulane University.

Table of Contents

Preface ix
PART I The Inevitable Implosion
Introduction: The Six Waves of Health Architecture
3(14)
The Hospital as a Machine for Healing
17(46)
An Imperfect Machine for an Imperfect System, 1970--80
63(32)
Utopian Excursions
95(38)
PART II Reconfiguration
Reinventing the Hospital
133(62)
Reinventing the Patient Room
195(28)
Architectural Environments for the Aged, 1965--2000
223(56)
The Community Care Clinic
279(50)
Frontiers of a Transformed Landscape
329(24)
Notes 353(38)
Index 391(10)
Illustration Credits 401

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