Health and Architecture The History of Spaces of Healing and Care in the Pre-Modern Era

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Preface
1. Places of Care and Healing: Context, Design, and Development in History, Mohammad Gharipour (Morgan State University, USA)
Part One - Religiosity: Healthcare in Religious Context
2. The Hospital Design in History: The Dichotomy of Religious and Secular Contexts, Guenter B. Risse (University of Washington, USA)
3. A Plan for the King and the Sick: Portuguese Hospital Architecture during the Age of Exploration, Danielle Abdon (Temple University, USA)
4. Healing of the Poor: The Hospital of Our Lady of Potterie in Bruges and the Miracle Book (1520-21), Miyako Sugiyama (Independent Scholar, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Japan)
5. 'The Love of Friends Made This in the Cause of Humanity': Therapeutic Environment in Quaker Asylum Design at the York Retreat, Ann-Marie Akehurst (Independent Scholar, Royal Institute of British Architects, UK)
Part Two - Polity: Public Health and Politics
6. Dar al-Shifa' or Bimaristan: Islamic Hospitals of Damascus, Sivas, and Cairo in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries, Richard McClary (York University, UK)
7. The Body of the City: Medicine and Urban Renewal in Sixtus IV's Rome, Johanna Heinrichs (University of Kentucky, USA)
8. Spaces of Healing in Early Modern Portuguese Empire: Changing Public Health and Hospital Buildings on Mozambique Island, Eugénia Rodrigues (University of Lisbon, Portugal)
9. From Exigency to Civic Pride: The Development of Early Australian Hospitals, Julie Willis (University of Melbourne, Australia)
Part Three - Typologies: Places of Health in History
10. Misericórdias: Healthcare and Welfare Architecture in Sixteenth-Century Portugal, Joana Pinho (University of Lisbon, Portugal)
11. Making the Home a Healing Space: Self-cultivating Practices in Early Modern China, Ying Zhang (Hunan University, China)
12. For Care and Salvation: Leprosy Hostels in Pre-Modern Japan, circa 1200-1800, Susan L. Burns (University of Chicago, USA)
13. Purity and Progress: The First Maternity Hospitals in the United States, Jhennifer Amundson (Belmont University, USA)
Part Four - Architecture: Designing Spaces of Healing
14. Health as Harmony: The Pellegrinaio Cycle of Santa Maria della Scala in Siena, Margaret Bell (Independent Scholar, Norton Simon Museum of Art, USA)
15. Uterus House: Incubating Obstetrics in Early Modern Bologna, Kim Sexton (University of Arkansas, USA)
16. Healing by Design: An Experiential Approach to Early Modern Ottoman Hospital Architecture, Nina Macaraig (Koç University, Turkey)
17. Architectural Prescriptions: Johns Hopkins Medicine and the Shift from the Pre-Modern to the Modern Hospital, Stuart Bill Leslie (John Hopkins University, USA)
Bibliographies
Index