Hospital Architecture And Beyond

This book provides a fundamental and rational approach to hospital planning. It gives the designer a clear idea as to how a hospital should function in society, and it outlines exactly how a hospital should be organized. It examines the developments that have shaped today's hospitals through a variety of motivations such as conceptions of disease, ideas on what constitutes health, technologies of medicine and building, social forces, and esthetic attitudes. With its method of critical analysis, the book clearly indicates which concepts are still useful today and those which are outmoded or are mere traditions.