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Mending Bodies, Saving Souls: A History of Hospitals Risse, Guenter B. (Professor and Chairman, Department of the History and Philosophy of Health Sciences, Professor and Chairman, Department of the History and Philosophy of Health Sciences, University of California, San Francisco)
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Mending Bodies, Saving Souls: A History of Hospitals
Risse, Guenter B. (Professor and Chairman, Department of the History and Philosophy of Health Sciences, Professor and Chairman, Department of the History and Philosophy of Health Sciences, University of California, San Francisco)
By chronicling the transformations of hospitals from houses of mercy to tools for confinement, from dwellings of rehabilitation to spaces for clinical teaching and research, from rooms for birthing and dying to institutions of science and technology, this book provides a historical approach to understanding of today's hospitals.
736 pages, 21 halftones
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | July 29, 1999 |
| ISBN13 | 9780195055238 |
| Publishers | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Pages | 752 |
| Dimensions | 164 × 241 × 46 mm · 1.21 kg |
| Language | English |
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