Modern hospice design : the architecture of palliative care / Ken Worpole.

  • Worpole, Ken
Date:
2009
  • Books

About this work

Description

The hospice has become an iconic building for today's culture. Nevertheless, this is not a book about hospitals as such, but about what lessons the hospice movement has for new ideas about buildings and healthcare across the globe.

Publication/Creation

London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2009.

Physical description

122 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : black and white illustrations ; 24 cm

Contributors

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

A house at the end of life -- 'Be kind quickly' -- The brief is everything -- Public faces and private places -- Everything gathered in one small room -- In a hospice garden -- The evening land.

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ISBN

  • 9780415451802
  • 0415451809
  • 9780415451796
  • 0415451795
  • 9780203878101
  • 0203878108