Medicine Moves to the Mall

Medicine Moves to the Mall
Author: David Charles Sloane
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2003-04-01
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0801877687
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The shopping mall seems an unlikely place to go for health care services. Yet, the mall has become home to such services as well as a model for redesigning other health care facilities. In Medicine Moves to the Mall, David Charles Sloane and Beverlie Conant Sloane document the historical changes to our health care landscape by exploring the interactions between medicine and place. This unique combination of architectural history and the history of medicine provides a thought-provoking analysis of the geography of the practice of medicine. The book presents three essays, each accompanied by a gallery of historical and recent photos. The authors discuss the rise of modern hospitals and how they were shaped into scientifically sterile and humanly stark "medical workshops." Starting in the 1970s, hospital facilities were altered in appearance to become more friendly and welcoming. The integration of a shopping mall's spaciousness and open design with technology and scientific innovation served in "humanizing the hospital." Most recently, the accessibility and convenience of shopping center and roadside clinics have invited Americans to go "shopping for health" in the increasingly commercialized medical system. Medicine Moves to the Mall will appeal to scholars and professionals in fields ranging from health care to cultural geography and from urban studies to architectural history, as well as to readers interested in the shifting status of medicine in American society.

Medicine Moves to the Mall

Medicine Moves to the Mall
Author: David Charles Sloane
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2003-01-17
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780801870644
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Links changes in the sites at which medical services are offered to changes in medical practice, in medical economics, and in patterns of American commerce and urbanism. [back cover].

What Americans Build and Why

What Americans Build and Why
Author: Ann Sloan Devlin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 317
Release: 2010-05-31
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0521734355
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Examines five areas of Americans' built environment and looks at the relationships of size and scale to the way Americans live their lives.

Transforming the Doctor's Office

Transforming the Doctor's Office
Author: Ann Sloan Devlin
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 179
Release: 2014-04-24
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1317750012
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From the parking lot to the exam room, doctors can improve the physical surroundings for their patients, yet often they do not. Given the numerous and varied duties doctors must perform, it may fall to the design profession to implement changes, many based on research, to improve healthcare experiences. From location and layout to furnishings and positive distractions, this book provides evidence-based information about the physical environment to help doctors and those who design medical workspaces improve the experience of health care. Along with its research base, a special aspect of this book is the integration of relevant historical material about the office practice of physicians at the beginning of the twentieth century. Many of their design solutions are viable today. In addition to improving the physical design of healthcare facilities, author Ann Sloan Devlin is the granddaughter, daughter, and niece of physicians, as well as the granddaughter and daughter of nurses. She worked in a hospital during college, and has visited a good many practitioners’ offices in medical office buildings and ambulatory care settings. This book addresses an overlooked location of care: the doctor’s office suite.

Rise of the Modern Hospital

Rise of the Modern Hospital
Author: Jeanne Kisacky
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Total Pages: 479
Release: 2017-12-02
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0822981610
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Rise of the Modern Hospital is a focused examination of hospital design in the United States from the 1870s through the 1940s. This understudied period witnessed profound changes in hospitals as they shifted from last charitable resorts for the sick poor to premier locations of cutting-edge medical treatment for all classes, and from low-rise decentralized facilities to high-rise centralized structures. Jeanne Kisacky reveals the changing role of the hospital within the city, the competing claims of doctors and architects for expertise in hospital design, and the influence of new medical theories and practices on established traditions. She traces the dilemma designers faced between creating an environment that could function as a therapy in and of itself and an environment that was essentially a tool for the facilitation of increasingly technologically assisted medical procedures. Heavily illustrated with floor plans, drawings, and photographs, this book considers the hospital building as both a cultural artifact, revelatory of external medical and social change, and a cultural determinant, actively shaping what could and did take place within hospitals.

Making Leisure Work

Making Leisure Work
Author: Brian Lonsway
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2013-09-13
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1134718292
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Contemporary architecture of theme-based design is examined in this book, leading to a new understanding of architecture's role in the increasingly diversified consumer environment. It explores the ‘Experience Economy’ to reveal how everyday environments strategically and opportunistically blur our leisure, work, and personal life experiences. Considering scientific design research, consumer psychology, and Hollywood story-telling techniques, the book looks at how the design of theme parks, casinos, and shopping malls has influenced our more unexpectedly themed spaces, from the city to the hospital. Widely taking architecture as a social practice, this text is of relevance to all cultural and sociological studies in the built and material environment.

Health Care in America

Health Care in America
Author: John C. Burnham
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 611
Release: 2015-05-15
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1421416085
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This comprehensive history of medicine and public health in America covers changes and developments over four centuries, from the arrival of the first Europeans to the twenty-first century.

Design for Health

Design for Health
Author: Terri Peters
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 136
Release: 2017-05-01
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1119162130
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Design for Health: Sustainable Approaches to Therapeutic Architecture Guest-Edited by Terri Peters This issue of AD seeks out innovative and varied sustainable architectural responses to designing for health, such as: integrating sensory gardens and landscapes into the care environment; specifying local materials and passive technologies; and reinvigorating aging postwar facilities. Contributors include: Anne-Marie Adams, Sean Ahlquist, Giuseppe Boscherini, Robin Guenther, Charles Jencks, Richard Mazuch, Stephen Verderber, Featured architects: 100% Interior, Arup, C.F. Møller, Lyons, MASS Design Group, Mongomery Sisam Architects, Penoyre & Prasad

Medical Visions

Medical Visions
Author: Kirsten Ostherr
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2013-04-11
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 019973724X
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This book explores 120 years of medical image-making to explain how visual representations came to play a central role in medical education and practice. She demonstrates how medical images acquire cultural meaning and influence, shaping professional and popular understandings of health and disease.

Gender, Health, and Popular Culture

Gender, Health, and Popular Culture
Author: Cheryl Krasnick Warsh
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Total Pages: 333
Release: 2011-07-07
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1554582482
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Health is a gendered concept in Western cultures. Customarily it is associated with strength in men and beauty in women. This gendered concept was transmitted through visual representations of the ideal female and male bodies, and ubiquitous media images resulted in the absorption of universal standards of beauty and health and generalized desires to achieve them. Today, genuine or self-styled experts—from physicians to newspaper columnists to advertisers—offer advice on achieving optimal health. Topics in this collection are wide ranging and include childbirth advice in Victorian Australia and Cold War America, menstruation films, Canadian abortion tourism, the Pap smear, the Body Worlds exhibition, and fat liberation. Masculinity is explored among drunkards in antebellum Philadelphia and family memoirs during the 1980s AIDS epidemic. Seemingly objective public health advisories are shown to be as influenced by commercial interests, class, gender, and other social differentiations as marketing approaches are, and the message presented is mediated to varying degrees by those receiving it. This book will be of interest to scholars in women’s studies, health studies, marketing, media studies, social history and anthropology, and popular culture.