Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. The Hospital Building as a Means of Disease Prevention, 1700–1873
Chapter 2. The Transformative Potential and Conservative Reality of Germ Theory and Antisepsis, 1874–1877
Chapter 3. The Post–Germ Theory Pavilion in the Dawn of Asepsis, 1878–1897
Chapter 4. Hygienic Decentralization vs. Functional Centralization: Reasons for Continuity and Change, 1898–1917
Chapter 5. The Vertical Hospital as an Attractive Factory, 1917–1929
Chapter 6. The “Meadow Monument to Medicine and Science,” 1930–1945
Chapter 7. Postwar Hospital Design Trends
Notes
Bibliographic Essay
Figure Sources and Credits
Index