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Book SynopsisTracing Hospital Boundaries explores, for the first time, how the forces of both integration and segregation shaped hospitals and their communities between the eleventh and twentieth centuries in Europe, North America and Africa. Within this broad comparative context it also shines a light on a number of case studies from Southeastern Europe. The eleven chapters show how people’s access to, and experience of, healthcare institutions was affected by social, cultural and economic, as well as medical, dynamics. These same factors intersected with developing healthcare technologies to shape hospital design and location, as well as internal policies and practices. The volume produces a new history of the hospital in which boundaries – both physical and symbolic – are frequently contested and redrawn. Contributors are Irena Benyovsky Latin, David Gentilcore, Annemarie Kinzelbach, Rina Kralj-Brassard, Ivana Lazarević, Clement Masakure, Anna Peterson, Egidio Priani, Gordan Ravančić, Jonathan Reinarz, Jane Stevens Crawshaw, David Theodore, Christina Vanja, George Weisz, and Valentina Živković.
Table of Contents Acknowledgements List of Figures Notes on Contributors Introduction: Hospitals, Integration and Segregation Jane Stevens Crawshaw and Gordan Ravančić Part 1: Patient Identity and Experience 1 Beyond the City’s Walls: The Lepers of Narbonne and Siena before the Black Death Anna M. Peterson 2 Leprosaria: The Simultaneity of Segregation and Integration in Early Modern Southern German Towns Annemarie Kinzelbach 3 The Role of Segregation and Integration in Identity Formation for Foundlings in Early Modern Dubrovnik Rina Kralj-Brassard and Ivana Lazarević 4 “San Servolo Lunatic!”: Segregation and Integration in the Life Cycle of Pellagra Patients at Venice’s Provincial Asylums (1842–1912) David Gentilcore and Egidio Priani Part 2: Hospital Form and Organisation 5 Shelter and Custody. Identifying and treating Physical and Mental Disabilities in Eighteenth-Century Hessian High Hospitals Christina Vanja 6 From Isolation to Integration: the Institutional Treatment of Burns Patients in Britain, c.1845–1950 Jonathan Reinarz 7 Segregating or Integrating Chronic Patients in Twentieth-century American Hospitals George Weisz 8 “Dirty Dirty Dirt”: Automating Segregation in the Friesen Concept Hospital David Theodore Part 3: Hospital Location and Context 9 Sacral Topography, Charity and Hospitals in Late Medieval Kotor Valentina Živković 10 Female Piety and Gendered Spaces: Women’s Hospitals in Renaissance Dubrovnik Irena Benyovsky Latin 11 Government Hospitals as a Microcosm: Integration and Segregation in Salisbury Hospital, Rhodesia, 1890s–1950 Clement Masakure Thematic bibliography Index
