Health Buildings and Hospitals

Buildings can shape our lives, improve our health, and transform society. Academic histories of architecture and medicine overlook the importance of hospital design. This book shows how hospitals embody the social hierarchies of their time. Hospitals influence individual behavior, and they have the potential to advance human rights. To study hospitals is to unlock the laws of architecture

An updated version of a work that has introduced three generations of students and professionals to the state-of-the-art in creating healing environments.

Features the rise of the modern hospice movement that began in 1967. This book describes the lessons the hospice movement has for fresh ideas about buildings for healthcare across the world. It is suitable for architects and interior designers, estate and facility managers involved in hospice design, healthcare professionals.