Healthcare Architecture in an Era of Radical Transformation [Hardcover]

Dr. Stephen Verderber (Author), Professor David J. Fine (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0300078390 | ISBN-13: 978-0300078398 | Publication Date: February 9, 2000 | Edition: 1

In the 1960s and 1970s large, high-technology, in-patient oriented hospitals reflected the central role of such facilities in an expanding healthcare system. But hospital architecture and the healthcare system have vastly changed since then, in profound and unpredicted ways. This book explores for the first time how and why acute care hospitals and the often related psychiatric facilities, retirement communities, and community clinics have been transformed during the final decades of the twentieth century. The authors also consider utopian visions of unbuilt work and look ahead to the possible healthcare landscape of the future: 'health villages', home-based care for the ageing and aged population, and cyberclinics and virtual hospitals.

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"a superb introduction to the major hospital architects of the late twentieth century" -- Annmarie Adams, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians

About the Author

Stephen Verderber is professor of architecture and health systems management at Tulane University, a registered architect, and co-principal of R-2ARCH, Los Angeles and New Orleans. David J. Fine is Regents Professor and chair of the department of health systems management at Tulane University and emeritus vice chancellor of the Tulane University Medical Center.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 416 pages
• Publisher: Yale University Press; 1 edition (February 9, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0300078390
• ISBN-13: 978-0300078398
• Product Dimensions: 11.1 x 8.6 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,909,647 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Transformational Room Chapter is great, November 20, 2000

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This review is from: Healthcare Architecture in an Era of Radical Transformation (Hardcover)

The chapter on the transformational room offers generous descriptions and anaylsis of reseach based concepts. Verderber and Fine clasify the maternity suite as such a room, they also provide a great BRIEF history of birthing centers in the U.S. The book seems well thought out and thorough.

5.0 out of 5 stars Best book on the subject, April 9, 2011

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This review is from: Healthcare Architecture in an Era of Radical Transformation (Hardcover)

Healthcare Architecture is both a history of a building type and a well covered and well-reasoned analysis of how ideology, technology, and public policy influences architecture as much as design theory and aesthetic preference. The authors detail the inseparability of architecture and the institutions that use these buildings.

Wayne Ruga, of Harvard University, says, "Healthcare Architecture should be required reading for those who have an interest in improving healthcare and architecture."