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Tracing 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.
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.
Price: $172.00
Pages: 280
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Clio Medica
Publication Date:
09 April 2020
ISBN: 9789004404427
Format: Hardcover
“This creative, insightful collection can be a useful resource in graduate and upper-level seminars on historical methodology and public health, and may also be used as supplementary reading for appropriate regional and global studies courses.
Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates. Graduate students and faculty.”
- J. P. Davis (Hopkinsville Community College), CHOICE, Vol. 58 (8), 2021.
“Tracing Hospital Boundaries encompasses both understandings of the hospital within its very broad chronological sweep, from the eleventh to the twentieth century. Alongside the significant new research on hospitals, their patients, and their contexts presented in its individual chapters, a major contribution of the volume is how it allows historians of the medieval, early modern, and modern hospital to learn from each other. […]
This richly researched and wide-ranging volume advances our understanding of the hospital in all its meanings and associations.”
- Leslie Topp (Birkbeck, University of London), Isis, Vol. 112 (3), 2021, 590-591 pp.
Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates. Graduate students and faculty.”
- J. P. Davis (Hopkinsville Community College), CHOICE, Vol. 58 (8), 2021.
“Tracing Hospital Boundaries encompasses both understandings of the hospital within its very broad chronological sweep, from the eleventh to the twentieth century. Alongside the significant new research on hospitals, their patients, and their contexts presented in its individual chapters, a major contribution of the volume is how it allows historians of the medieval, early modern, and modern hospital to learn from each other. […]
This richly researched and wide-ranging volume advances our understanding of the hospital in all its meanings and associations.”
- Leslie Topp (Birkbeck, University of London), Isis, Vol. 112 (3), 2021, 590-591 pp.
Jane Stevens Crawshaw, MA (hons), MPhil, Ph.D. (2008) University of Cambridge, is Senior Lecturer in Early Modern European History at Oxford Brookes University. In 2012 she published her first book, which was the first holistic study of the development of quarantine and public health in early modern Venice. She has published articles and book chapters on a number of aspects of the social, cultural, environmental and gender history of health in Renaissance Italy.
Irena Benyovsky Latin is a scholarly advisor at the Department of Medieval History, Croatian Institute of History. Her research focuses on medieval urban history in the Eastern Adriatic (especially Trogir and Dubrovnik), urban social topography, the development of medieval urban institutions and the relationship between cities and central authorities. Since 2015 she has been the PL of the research project "Towns and Cities of the Croatian Middle Ages: Urban Elites and Urban Space“, supported by the Croatian Science Foundation. She is the Croatian representative on the International Committee of the History of Towns.
Irena Benyovsky Latin is a scholarly advisor at the Department of Medieval History, Croatian Institute of History. Her research focuses on medieval urban history in the Eastern Adriatic (especially Trogir and Dubrovnik), urban social topography, the development of medieval urban institutions and the relationship between cities and central authorities. Since 2015 she has been the PL of the research project "Towns and Cities of the Croatian Middle Ages: Urban Elites and Urban Space“, supported by the Croatian Science Foundation. She is the Croatian representative on the International Committee of the History of Towns.