Class Difference and the Reformation of Ontario Public Hospitals, 1900-1935
Make Every Effort to Satisfy the Tastes of the Well-to-Do
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3982168 |
|---|---|
| Authors | James M Wishart (Queen's University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Pages | 27 |
| Publication date | 2001-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Labour / Le Travail (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0700-3862 • E-ISSN: 1911-4842 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/25149160 |
| OpenAlex | W1593923370 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
At the beginning of the 20th century, charity hospital governors in Ontario began to explore the possibility of admitting paying patients to help offset the costs of providing medical charity. This transformation entailed changes in administration, as well as concerted publicity and marketing campaigns to rehabilitate the image of the hospital and to attract affluent health consumers. The subsequent construction of new hospital facilities, exclusively for the use of paying customers, was informed by an ideology that mandated the physical separation of social classes and the identification of deserving and less deserving recipients of health care services. This paper examines aspects of the design, management, marketing, and staffing of a number of southern Ontario public hospitals to illustrate how the transformation of these institutions in the years between 1900-1935 actively shaped class inequality within and outside their walls. Resume Au debut du 20e siecle, les administrateurs des hopitaux charitables en Ontario ont commence a explorer la possibilite d'admettre des patients payants pour aider a contrebalancer les couts de la prestation des services medicaux charitables. Cette transformation a donne lieu a des changements dans l'administration, ainsi qu'a des campagnes publicitaires et commerciales concertees, afin d'ameliorer l'image de l'hopital et d'attirer les consommateurs fortunes. La construction subsequente de nouvelles installations hospitalieres dont l'usage etait reserve aux clients payants s'est inspiree d'une ideologie qui entrainait la separation physique des classes sociales et l'identification des recipiendaires des services de soins de sante meritants et moins meritants. Cet article permet d'examiner les aspects de la conception, de la gestion, de la commercialisation et la dotation en personnel de plusieurs hopitaux publics du sud de l'Ontario et aide a montrer la maniere dont la transformation des ces etablissements dans les annees entre 1900 et 1935 a favorise de facon remarquable l'inegalite des classes a l'interieur et a l'exterieur de ces etablissements
Class (philosophy · Economics · Operations management · Canadian Identity and History · Computer Science · Healthcare Quality and Management · Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices · Artificial Intelligence
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,19 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2024 (15) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |