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Medicine and magnificence : British hospital and asylum architecture, 1660-1815 / Christine Stevenson.

By: Stevenson, ChristineLanguage: English Publication details: New Haven, CT : Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, 2000. Description: viii, 312 p. : ill. ; 27 cmISBN: 0300085362Subject(s): Architecture -- Hospital. -- History -- Great Britain | Asylums -- Design and construction. -- Design and construction. -- Great Britain | Hospital buildings -- Design and construction. -- Design and construction. -- Great Britain | Health facilities -- Design and construction. -- History. -- Great BritainLOC classification: RA 967 .S725 2000
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: Chapter I Hospitality, monuments, and patriarchal medicine II -- The frets of luxury 14 -- Golden names * I8 -- Native American architecture 23 -- Chapter 2 Palaces and hospitals 31 -- Stately lodgings for the poor 32 -- Inhabitants and visitors 38 -- Discipline * 44 -- Religious military camps and the H6tel des Invalides * 46 -- Chelsea and the cell 53 -- Chapter 3 Publicity and public buildings 62 -- Restoration 62 -- Publication * 68 -- Greenwich 7I -- A 'Humour of Colonades' 79 -- Chapter 4 Looking at asylums 85 -- False taste and Christian modernity 86 -- Venetian windows * 89 -- Lunette windows * 97 -- Chapter 5 Raising the hospital, each performing his part io6 -- Useful expertise * I07 -- The charitable construction of the Edinburgh Royal -- Infirmary inI -- Protestant benevolence I21 -- Chapter 6 The appearances of the eighteenth-century -- civil hospital I25 -- Courtyard palaces * 126 -- Conversions, single files, and square plans I32 -- A college in a hospital I4I -- Letter-plans * I44 -- Appraisal I52 -- Chapter 7 The breath of life 55 -- Miasmata and other airs I58 -- Ships and Stephen Hales * I63 -- Chapter 8 Island hospitals 172 -- The early naval hospitals . 74 -- The royal hospitals at Haslar and Plymouth * 176 -- Remaking the Hotel-Dieu I85 -- Chapter 9 Ornament and the architect I95 -- Ornamental parts 96 -- Complaining and reforming I99 -- Natural architecture 205 -- Chapter io First principles 213 -- Radical charity 2I4 -- The dream of air 218 -- The planning of the Derby Infirmary 223 -- 'Architectural rotondities' 233.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-306) and index.

Machine generated contents note: Chapter I Hospitality, monuments, and patriarchal medicine II -- The frets of luxury 14 -- Golden names * I8 -- Native American architecture 23 -- Chapter 2 Palaces and hospitals 31 -- Stately lodgings for the poor 32 -- Inhabitants and visitors 38 -- Discipline * 44 -- Religious military camps and the H6tel des Invalides * 46 -- Chelsea and the cell 53 -- Chapter 3 Publicity and public buildings 62 -- Restoration 62 -- Publication * 68 -- Greenwich 7I -- A 'Humour of Colonades' 79 -- Chapter 4 Looking at asylums 85 -- False taste and Christian modernity 86 -- Venetian windows * 89 -- Lunette windows * 97 -- Chapter 5 Raising the hospital, each performing his part io6 -- Useful expertise * I07 -- The charitable construction of the Edinburgh Royal -- Infirmary inI -- Protestant benevolence I21 -- Chapter 6 The appearances of the eighteenth-century -- civil hospital I25 -- Courtyard palaces * 126 -- Conversions, single files, and square plans I32 -- A college in a hospital I4I -- Letter-plans * I44 -- Appraisal I52 -- Chapter 7 The breath of life 55 -- Miasmata and other airs I58 -- Ships and Stephen Hales * I63 -- Chapter 8 Island hospitals 172 -- The early naval hospitals . 74 -- The royal hospitals at Haslar and Plymouth * 176 -- Remaking the Hotel-Dieu I85 -- Chapter 9 Ornament and the architect I95 -- Ornamental parts 96 -- Complaining and reforming I99 -- Natural architecture 205 -- Chapter io First principles 213 -- Radical charity 2I4 -- The dream of air 218 -- The planning of the Derby Infirmary 223 -- 'Architectural rotondities' 233.

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