Restructuring Isolation
Hospital Architecture, Medicine, and Disease Prevention
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15025880 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jeanne Kisacky (0000-0002-6065-9910, Syracuse University, corresponding author), Jeanne Susan Kisacky |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 79 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-49 |
| Publication date | 2005-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Bulletin of the history of medicine (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-5140 • E-ISSN: 1086-3176 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/bhm.2005.0029 |
| PMID | 15764826 |
| OpenAlex | W2037074364 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 13 |
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 achieved, altered drastically. Traditional strategies of increasing the air space and flow around each patient gave way to Florence Nightingale's sanitary nursing, Joseph Lister's antisepsis, Joseph Grancher's barrier system of nursing, D. L. Richardson's aseptic nursing, and Charles Chapin's advocacy of individual cubicles. The larger social and medical transformations of the hospital colored all of these shifts. But the changing isolation strategies also reveal a transformation of the underlying understanding of the role that hospital architecture played in disease incidence
Asepsis · Disease · Incidence (geometry) · Isolation (microbiology) · Medical emergency · Pathology · Political science · Restructuring · Architecture · Biographical and Historical Analysis · Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices · History · History of Medicine Studies · Law · Medicine · Surgery
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| Unique citing works | 7 |
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| Citations per year | 0,39 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2024 (17) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |