[The birth of modern hospital].
The modern hospital was born in France, at the end of the XVIII century. The article analyzes the debate promoted by the Académie des Sciences to ascertain what was necessary to rebuild the the hotel Dieu, destroyed by fire. This was the occasion to definitively condemn the medical conception of hospital.
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Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Roma, I.
D005602:France; D049671:History, 18th Century; D006761:Hospitals / Q000266:history*; D010686:Philosophy, Medical / Q000266:history*