HIST 249 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Subculture, Registered Nurse, High Tech
The New Hospital
Wednesday, October 11, 2017
2:28 PM
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Reading
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• Hilary Marland, “The Changing Role of the Hospital, 1800-1900
• 18th century - transition period
• Today - still in the beginning of modern medicine
• Clinical medicine (next class) a base for what kind of medicine we have today
• Last class - 18th century
• Various systems to understand the function of the body in health & disease
• Impacted the theory on how the body works
• Theoretical base of medicine change but the practice did not change
• Today: looking just @ the hospital
• Emergence of modern medicine from a very specific angle
• 5 themes - an important 1 was institutions (the hospital)
• Connects traditional western medicine with modern western medicine
• Old hospitals became the new hospitals
• Changed the experience of both being a patient & a doctor
• Within the new setting of the new hospital - knowledge of health & disease was being
produced
• Changed rules for the medical profession
• Doctors rarely set foot in a hospital
• Doctors become interested in clinical experience - they wanted to work in a hospital &
become clinical teachers
• Surgery - this time became more & more practiced in the hospital?
• The Old Hospital - Medieval Hospital
• Came from the agenda from the person who founded the hospital
• A shared religious space
• Religious institutions
• Under church laws
• Staffed by nuns
• Was not founded by the church
• The people in the hospital had to pray for the founder
• The medieval hospital was a shared religious space
• Became temporarily part of a religious community
• Central place so everyone can see / pray - remembered everyday
• Also share the health care aspect of the hospital
• Those who were getting better & could get out of bed were expected to help out
and act as other nurses for those who were still not well
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• Who was in the hospitals? Not only sick people, also people who had no where to go
for various reasons
• Specialized hospitals (for old people)
• Social welfare institution - temporary out of work people could find relief…
• Becomes a way of imposing social control - on beggars etc.
• An all purpose welfare institution
• The Renaissance Hospital - Piety & Philanthropy
• Charitable place for charity but also a Christian religious place
• Two different sides that are arranged symmetrically, shows seams
• Left hand side: patient is praying, religious taking care of the patient
• Right side: local philanthropists taking after the patient
• Social elite display their Christian charity & philanthropy for society
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