Designing for "the little convalescents": children's hospitals in Toronto and Montreal, 1875-2006.
This paper explores more than a century of changing ideas about the health of Canadian children through the architecture of pediatric hospitals in Montreal and Toronto. As a unique source in the history of medicine, hospital architecture reveals three distinct phases in the construction of children as patients. Early 20th-century children's hospitals remained bastions of older spatial attitudes towards health. The postwar hospital was self-consciously modern, with an arrangement more scientific and institutional than its predecessor. Through reference to other typologies, the postmodern hospital marks a curious return to the earlier attitude that children's health is a family affair. Is the hospital a home for children or an institution for science?
Adams
Annmarie
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School of Architecture, McGill University.
Theodore
David
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D001108:Architecture / Q000266:history*; D002170:Canada; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006749:Hospital Design and Construction / Q000266:history*; D006776:Hospitals, Pediatric / Q000266:history*; D006786:Hospitals, Urban / Q000266:history*; D006801:Humans