Healthcare Design

Explores buildings and landscapes that were designed to treat or prevent disease in the era before pharmaceuticals and biomedicine emerged as first line treatments. Available through ProQuest Ebook Central (login required).

Includes a range of sustainable architectural responses to designing for health, such as: integrating sensory gardens and landscapes into the care environment; specifying local materials and passive technologies; and reinvigorating aging postwar facilities. Available through ProQuest Ebook Central (login required).

Explores healthcare buildings in the Netherlands and how changes in medicine, psychiatry and society are reflected in the architecture and design of hospitals, psychiatric facilities, senior living environments, and other healthcare spaces

Explores the history of therapeutic design in the 19th century, from America’s earliest purpose-built institutions for the insane to the asylum construction frenzy in the second half of the century. Available through ProQuest Ebook Central (login required).

Explores the changing nature of mental health services over the 20th century through the example of the Saskatchewan Mental Hospital, built in 1921 and considered the last asylum in North America. Available through ProQuest Ebook Central (login required).

Examines the socio-political and religious contexts of intellectual ability and disability from the twelfth-century beginnings of European social administration to the onset of formal human science disciplines in the modern era, and demonstrates how these concepts became part of psychology, medicine and biology. Full text available for free from the publisher (open access).

Provides a social history of medicine in the Ottoman Empire, exploring the work and power of medical practitioners, medical ethics, the relationship of medicine with religion, standards of professionalism, bureaucratization and health systems management, and the extent of state control. Available through ProQuest Ebook Central (login required).

Explores the history of institutional design from the 18th to 20th centuries with examples including a hospital, a residential home for teenagers, assisted living facilities, and mental health facilities. Available through ProQuest Ebook Central (login required).

Examines how hospital design influenced the development of 20th-century medicine and demonstrates the importance of these specialized buildings in the history of architecture. At the center of this work is Montreal's landmark Royal Victoria Hospital, built in 1893. Available through ProQuest Ebook Central (login required).

Provides an account of Freud's professional and personal life in Vienna, Berlin, and London along with a critical discussion of selected examples of his domestic architecture, interior designs, and psychoanalytic consulting rooms. Available through ProQuest Ebook Central (login required).