Stories
- Article
Homes for the hives of industry
By building workers’ villages, industry titans demonstrated both philanthropy and control. Employees’ health improved, while rulebooks told them how to live ideal lives.
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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.
- Book extract
The shape of thought
Santiago Ramón y Cajal’s description of the moment in 1887 when he saw a brain cell for the first time never fails to move neuroscientist Richard Wingate to tears. Here he captures that enduring sense of wonder.
- Book extract
Ayurveda: Knowledge for long life
The story of medicine in India is rich and complex. Aarathi Prasad investigates how it came to be this way.
Catalogue
- Books
National Centre for Health Care Arts / MARU.
Medical Architecture Research UnitDate: [1988]- Books
Pinderfields ward evaluation study / Ann Noble and Roger Dixon.
Noble, Ann.Date: 1983- Books
Healthcare building for tomorrow : developing a 2020 vision : seminar at the British Medical Association, London, May 1999 / seminar organised by MARU, South Bank University, with the Nuffield Trust.
Date: [1999]- Books
Health building futures : achieving quality in health care design and broadening the vision.
Date: 2003- Books
Therapeutic landscapes : a history of English hospital gardens since 1800 / Clare Hickman.
Hickman, Clare (Welcome Research Fellow in Medical History & Humanities)Date: 2013