Health and Architecture : The History of Spaces of Healing and Care in the Pre-Modern Era (Paperback)

List of Illustrations List of Contributors Preface 1. Places of Care and Healing: Context, Design, and Development in History, Mohammad Gharipour (Morgan State University, USA) Part One - Religiosity: Healthcare in Religious Context 2. The Hospital Design in History: The Dichotomy of Religious and Secular Contexts, Guenter B. Risse (University of Washington, USA) 3. A Plan for the King and the Sick: Portuguese Hospital Architecture during the Age of Exploration, Danielle Abdon (Temple University, USA) 4. Healing of the Poor: The Hospital of Our Lady of Potterie in Bruges and the Miracle Book (1520-21), Miyako Sugiyama (Independent Scholar, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Japan) 5. 'The Love of Friends Made This in the Cause of Humanity': Therapeutic Environment in Quaker Asylum Design at the York Retreat, Ann-Marie Akehurst (Independent Scholar, Royal Institute of British Architects, UK) Part Two - Polity: Public Health and Politics 6. Dar al-Shifa' or Bimaristan: Islamic Hospitals of Damascus, Sivas, and Cairo in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries, Richard McClary (York University, UK) 7. The Body of the City: Medicine and Urban Renewal in Sixtus IV's Rome, Johanna Heinrichs (University of Kentucky, USA) 8. Spaces of Healing in Early Modern Portuguese Empire: Changing Public Health and Hospital Buildings on Mozambique Island, Eugenia Rodrigues (University of Lisbon, Portugal) 9. From Exigency to Civic Pride: The Development of Early Australian Hospitals, Julie Willis (University of Melbourne, Australia) Part Three - Typologies: Places of Health in History 10. Misericordias: Healthcare and Welfare Architecture in Sixteenth-Century Portugal, Joana Pinho (University of Lisbon, Portugal) 11. Making the Home a Healing Space: Self-cultivating Practices in Early Modern China, Ying Zhang (Hunan University, China) 12. For Care and Salvation: Leprosy Hostels in Pre-Modern Japan, circa 1200-1800, Susan L. Burns (University of Chicago, USA) 13. Purity and Progress: The First Maternity Hospitals in the United States, Jhennifer Amundson (Belmont University, USA) Part Four - Architecture: Designing Spaces of Healing 14. Health as Harmony: The Pellegrinaio Cycle of Santa Maria della Scala in Siena, Margaret Bell (Independent Scholar, Norton Simon Museum of Art, USA) 15. Uterus House: Incubating Obstetrics in Early Modern Bologna, Kim Sexton (University of Arkansas, USA) 16. Healing by Design: An Experiential Approach to Early Modern Ottoman Hospital Architecture, Nina Macaraig (Koc University, Turkey) 17. Architectural Prescriptions: Johns Hopkins Medicine and the Shift from the Pre-Modern to the Modern Hospital, Stuart Bill Leslie (John Hopkins University, USA) Bibliographies Index