title: [The hospital: reality and proposable future].
abstract: In this work we run over hospital history from Middle ages to the present time. Hospitals were charitable institutions in fact they rise inside monasterys, churches or castles with an architecture in modum crucis as a symbolic expression of Christ crucifix. During Renaissance, new scientific Knowledges and the need of technical assistance in a suitable place, lead to a new kind of hospital included into the functional centres of the city were medical practice takes the places of spiritual assistance. In XVIII century hospital is like a "human diseases botanical garden" divided into departments with a circular structure in conformity with a functional model of control. To exceed the isolation of single room, rectangular rooms born with a radially arrangement. At the end of 700's born the pavilions structures typical of hospitals until half 900's when the "monobloc" take place. Today hospital becomes horizontal, include in the context of the city, with hall as a big hotel and with trading centres in accordance with Renzo Piano model and with a new vision of hospital as a welcome place were the patient is a guest to treat as a person of consequence.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Biotecnologie Mediche e Medicina Legale, Sezione di Scienze Radiologiche, Università degli Studi di Palermo e Preside della Facoltà di Medicina e Chirurgia.
authors.forename: A E
authors.initials: AE
authors.lastname: Cardinale
authors.forename: M V
authors.initials: MV
authors.lastname: Torregrossa
mesh_terms: D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000266:history*; D005544:Forecasting; D049668:History, 15th Century; D049669:History, 16th Century; D049670:History, 17th Century; D049671:History, 18th Century; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049691:History, Medieval; D006739:Hospital Administration / Q000266:history; D006761:Hospitals / Q000266:history* / Q000639:trends*; D006801:Humans; D007558:Italy