{"product_id":"health-and-architecture-the-history-of-spaces-of-healing-and-care-in-the-premodern-era-9781350217379","title":"Health and Architecture The History of Spaces of","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMohammad Gharipour \u003c\/b\u003eis Professor of Architecture at the School of Architecture and Planning at Morgan State University in Baltimore, USA. His other publications include \u003ci\u003eSocial Housing in the Middle East\u003c\/i\u003e (co-edited with Kivanc Kilinc, 2019), \u003ci\u003eThe Historiography of Persian Architecture \u003c\/i\u003e(2015) and \u003ci\u003ePersian Gardens and Pavilions: Reflections in In Poetry, Arts and History \u003c\/i\u003e(I.B. Tauris, 2013).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHealth and Architecture\u003c\/i\u003e synthesizes new scholarship on structures and functions of healing spaces across an impressive geographic range from antiquity to the present. The four themes of religiosity, polity, typology, and design structure the seventeen contributors’ diverse explorations of healthcare from within homes to hospitals. * Marta Hanson, John Hopkins University, USA *\u003cbr\u003eIn the wake of the global pandemic, \u003ci\u003eHealth and Architecture\u003c\/i\u003e offers a collection of timely and far-reaching essays. Valuable for teachers and essential for scholars, this selection of carefully researched articles on architecture and medicine will spark conversations and catalyze research for decades to come. * Carla Yanni, Rutgers University, USA *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eList of Illustrations\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eList of Contributors\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePreface\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e 1. Places of Care and Healing: Context, Design, and Development in History, \u003ci\u003eMohammad Gharipour (Morgan State University, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart One - Religiosity: Healthcare in Religious Context\u003c\/b\u003e 2. The Hospital Design in History: The Dichotomy of Religious and Secular Contexts, \u003ci\u003eGuenter B. Risse (University of Washington, USA) \u003c\/i\u003e 3. A Plan for the King and the Sick: Portuguese Hospital Architecture during the Age of Exploration, \u003ci\u003eDanielle Abdon (Temple University, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e 4. Healing of the Poor: The Hospital of Our Lady of Potterie in Bruges and the Miracle Book (1520–21), \u003ci\u003eMiyako Sugiyama (Independent Scholar, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Japan)\u003c\/i\u003e 5. ‘The Love of Friends Made This in the Cause of Humanity’: Therapeutic Environment in Quaker Asylum Design at the York Retreat, \u003ci\u003eAnn-Marie Akehurst (Independent Scholar, Royal Institute of British Architects, UK)\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart Two - Polity: Public Health and Politics\u003c\/b\u003e 6. Dar al-Shifa’ or Bimaristan: Islamic Hospitals of Damascus, Sivas, and Cairo in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries, \u003ci\u003eRichard McClary (York University, UK)\u003c\/i\u003e 7. The Body of the City: Medicine and Urban Renewal in Sixtus IV’s Rome, \u003ci\u003eJohanna Heinrichs (University of Kentucky, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e 8. Spaces of Healing in Early Modern Portuguese Empire: Changing Public Health and Hospital Buildings on Mozambique Island, \u003ci\u003eEugénia Rodrigues (University of Lisbon, Portugal)\u003c\/i\u003e 9. From Exigency to Civic Pride: The Development of Early Australian Hospitals, \u003ci\u003eJulie Willis (University of Melbourne, Australia)\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart Three - Typologies: Places of Health in History\u003c\/b\u003e 10. Misericórdias: Healthcare and Welfare Architecture in Sixteenth-Century Portugal, \u003ci\u003eJoana Pinho (University of Lisbon, Portugal)\u003c\/i\u003e 11. Making the Home a Healing Space: Self-cultivating Practices in Early Modern China, \u003ci\u003eYing Zhang (Hunan University, China)\u003c\/i\u003e 12. For Care and Salvation: Leprosy Hostels in Pre-Modern Japan, circa 1200–1800, \u003ci\u003eSusan L. Burns (University of Chicago, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e 13. Purity and Progress: The First Maternity Hospitals in the United States, \u003ci\u003eJhennifer Amundson (Belmont University, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart Four - Architecture: Designing Spaces of Healing\u003c\/b\u003e 14. Health as Harmony: The Pellegrinaio Cycle of Santa Maria della Scala in Siena, \u003ci\u003eMargaret Bell (Independent Scholar, Norton Simon Museum of Art, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e 15. Uterus House: Incubating Obstetrics in Early Modern Bologna, \u003ci\u003eKim Sexton (University of Arkansas, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e 16. Healing by Design: An Experiential Approach to Early Modern Ottoman Hospital Architecture, \u003ci\u003eNina Macaraig (Koç University, Turkey)\u003c\/i\u003e 17. Architectural Prescriptions: Johns Hopkins Medicine and the Shift from the Pre-Modern to the Modern Hospital, \u003ci\u003eStuart Bill Leslie (John Hopkins University, USA) \u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003eBibliographies\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eIndex\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49529219187031,"sku":"9781350217379","price":139.34,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781350217379.jpg?v=1731874765","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/health-and-architecture-the-history-of-spaces-of-healing-and-care-in-the-premodern-era-9781350217379","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}