Permeable walls : historical perspectives on hospital and asylum visiting / / edited by Graham Mooney and Jonathan Reinarz.
Visiting relatives and friends in medical institutions is a common practice in all corners of the world. People probably go into hospitals as a visitor more frequently than they do as a patient. Permeable Walls is the first book devoted to the history of hospital and asylum visiting and deflects att...
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| Superior document: | Clio medica, 86 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Clio medica (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ;
86. Wellcome series in the history of medicine. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (369 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary material / Editors Permeable Walls
- List of Figures / Editors Permeable Walls
- List of Tables / Editors Permeable Walls
- Acknowledgements / Editors Permeable Walls
- Hospital and Asylum Visiting in Historical Perspective: Themes and Issues / Graham Mooney and Jonathan Reinarz
- Receiving the Rich, Rejecting the Poor: Towards a History of Hospital Visiting in Nineteenth-Century Provincial England / Jonathan Reinarz
- ‘Family-Centred Care’ in American Hospitals in Late-Qing China / Michelle Renshaw
- Care, Nurturance and Morality: The Role of Visitors and the Victorian London Children’s Hospital / Andrea Tanner
- Pariahs or Partners? Welcome and Unwelcome Visitors in the Jenny Lind Hospital for Sick Children, Norwich, 1900–50 / Bruce Lindsay
- Visiting Children with Cancer: The Parental Experience of the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, 1995–2005 / Robin L. Rohrer
- Infection and Citizenship: (Not) Visiting Isolation Hospitals in Mid-Victorian Britain / Graham Mooney
- Stage-Managing a Hospital in the Eighteenth Century: Visitation at the London Lock Hospital / Kevin Siena
- ‘The Keeper Must Himself be Kept’: Visitation and the Lunatic Asylum in England, 1750–1850 / Leonard Smith
- ‘A Disgrace to a Civilised Community’: Colonial Psychiatry and the Visit of Edward Mapother to South Asia, 1937–8 / James H. Mills and Sanjeev Jain
- ‘In View of the Knowledge to be Acquired’: Public Visits to New York’s Asylums in the Nineteenth Century / Janet Miron
- ‘Amusements are Provided’: Asylum Entertainment and Recreation in Australia and New Zealand c.1860–c.1945 / Dolly MacKinnon
- Challenging Institutional Hegemony: Family Visitors to Hospitals for the Insane in Australia and New Zealand, 1880's–1910's / Catharine Coleborne
- Notes on Contributors / Editors Permeable Walls
- Index / Editors Permeable Walls.