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London, city of lost hospitals

Come on the trail of hundreds of ghost hospitals, whose remnants hold clues to medical treatments of the past.

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The building as tool of healing

When we’re ill, it’s not just medical care that helps to treat us. Architects have discovered that the right environment can play an important part too.

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A history of art in hospitals

Art historian Anne Wallentine examines art in hospital settings – from its Christian devotional origins to its healing role in modern healthcare buildings.

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How hospital care fails disabled bodies

Hospitals aim to make sick people well. But if the sick person is also disabled, the unbending nature of monolithic hospital systems can easily worsen the situation. Here Jamie Hale writes from painful personal experience.

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  • Proposed buildings for St. Thomas's Hospital, London, 1865
  • Saint Bartholomew's Hospital, London: the Gibbs buildings. Oil painting.
  • Bellevue Hospital, New York City: a street corner with hospital buildings and people. Photograph.
  • British Red Cross Hospital, Turin: buildings and lawn. Photograph, c. 1918.
  • Bellevue Hospital, New York City: hospital buildings seen from above with the East River on left. Photograph.
  • Lady Hardinge Medical College and Hospital, Delhi: road leading through some of the hospital buildings. Photograph, 1921.
  • The Foundling Hospital, Holborn, London: the main buildings with several figures. Engraving, [1751].
  • Bellevue Hospital, New York City: a wharf on the East River with buildings. Photograph.
  • Bellevue Hospital, New York City: hospital buildings with a tower; a pile of bricks in the foreground from a demolished building. Photograph.
  • Purulia Leper Home and Hospital, Bihar, India: view of large hospital buildings with pillars: the men's hospital and the tuberculosis ward. Photograph, 1890/1920.
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