Hospital Life: Theory and Practice from the Medieval to the Modern (Paperback)

Contents: Christopher Bonfield: Therapeutic Regimes for Bodily Health in Medieval English Hospitals ? Fritz Dross: Their Daily Bread: Managing Hospital Finances in Early Modern Germany ? Sharon T. Strocchia: Caring for the ‘Incurable’ in Renaissance Pox Hospitals ? Jon Arrizabalaga: Medical Theory and Surgical Practice: Coping with the French Disease in Early Renaissance Portugal and Spain ? Laurinda Abreu: Training Health Professionals at the Hospital de Todos os Santos (Lisbon) 1500-1800 ? Elisabeth Belmas: Patient Care at the Hotel Royal des Invalides, Paris, 1670-1791 ? Anne Løkke: Conspicuous Consumption: The Royal Lying-in Hospital in Copenhagen in the late Eighteenth Century ? John Chircop: Management and Therapeutic Regimes in Two Lunatic Asylums in Corfu and Malta, 1837-1870 ? Andrea Tanner/Sue Hawkins: Myth, Marketing and Medicine: Life in British Children’s Hospitals 1850-1914 ? Stephen C. Kenny: Slavery, Southern Medicine and the American Slave Hospital Regime, 1830-1860 ? David Theodore: ‘The Fattest Possible Nurse’: Architecture, Computers, and Post-war Nursing ? Sally Sheard: Getting Better, Faster: Convalescence and Length of Stay in British and US Hospitals.