Jeanne Kisacky
Biographic Data
| ID | 5944282 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jeanne Kisacky |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jeanne |
| FAMILY NAME | Kisacky |
| SIGNATURE | KISACKY J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ithaca College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6065-9910 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
When Designs Became Interventions in Hospitals
Design is and always has been interventional and clinically relevant. Modern evidence-based designers' lineage was prominently shaped between 1800 and 1970. This article investigates hospital designs during this period that were correlated with patients' health outcomes and suggests how this history influenced our present-day understanding of evidence-based design
An Architectural History of US Community Hospitals
When hospitals became places of treatment and recovery rather than places of sickness and death, hospital-based patient care also changed. This article examines relationships between design-induced practice transformations in US hospitals between the 1850s and 1980s and transformations in hospitals' roles in American communities, with a specific focus on underserved communities
The Architecture of Madness: Insane Asylums in the United States
Carla Yanni begins her book with the statement that “Nineteenth-century psychiatrists considered the architecture of their hospitals, especially the planning, to be one of the most powerful tools for the treatment of the insane” (1). Nowadays, historians of medicine study cures and treatment; historians of architecture study environments. No wonder that no work focusing on asylum design has appeared since Henry Burdett's gargantuan works of the 1…
Restructuring Isolation: Hospital Architecture, Medicine, and Disease Prevention
This paper examines changing strategies of isolation in the New York Hospital between 1771 and 1930 by correlating the facilities available for isolation with changing reactions to internal disease incidence, changing medical rules and regulations, and shifting ward categories. To prevent internal "epidemics" of telltale diseases such as erysipelas, pyemia, and "hospital gangrene," what (or who) was isolated from what, and how that isolation was …
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Restructuring Isolation: Hospital Architecture, Medicine, and Disease Prevention
This paper examines changing strategies of isolation in the New York Hospital between 1771 and 1930 by correlating the facilities available for isolation with changing reactions to internal disease incidence, changing medical rules and regulations, and shifting ward categories. To prevent internal "epidemics" of telltale diseases such as erysipelas, pyemia, and "hospital gangrene," what (or who) was isolated from what, and how that isolation was …
The Architecture of Madness: Insane Asylums in the United States
Carla Yanni begins her book with the statement that “Nineteenth-century psychiatrists considered the architecture of their hospitals, especially the planning, to be one of the most powerful tools for the treatment of the insane” (1). Nowadays, historians of medicine study cures and treatment; historians of architecture study environments. No wonder that no work focusing on asylum design has appeared since Henry Burdett's gargantuan works of the 1…
An Architectural History of US Community Hospitals
When hospitals became places of treatment and recovery rather than places of sickness and death, hospital-based patient care also changed. This article examines relationships between design-induced practice transformations in US hospitals between the 1850s and 1980s and transformations in hospitals' roles in American communities, with a specific focus on underserved communities
When Designs Became Interventions in Hospitals
Design is and always has been interventional and clinically relevant. Modern evidence-based designers' lineage was prominently shaped between 1800 and 1970. This article investigates hospital designs during this period that were correlated with patients' health outcomes and suggests how this history influenced our present-day understanding of evidence-based design
Medicine (3 works) · Architecture (2 works) · Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Medical emergency (2 works) · Nursing (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · Archaeology (1 works)