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Lecture Outline: Western Medical Institutions

Introduction: Thinking about health institutions 1. The history of the hospital Early Christian Hospitals The Civic Hospital The Modern Scientific Hospital 2. The Modern Scientific Hospital: professional evolution concepts of disease & treatment patients efficiency model.

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Lecture Outline: Western Medical Institutions

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  1. Introduction: Thinking about health institutions 1. The history of the hospital Early Christian Hospitals The Civic Hospital The Modern Scientific Hospital 2. The Modern Scientific Hospital: professional evolution concepts of disease & treatment patients efficiency model 3. Conceptualizing health institutions Erving Goffman & the Total Institution Michel Foucault & the Social Control Institution Conclusion: The future of health institutions? The hospice Homebirth & community midwifery The 21st century hospital Lecture Outline: Western Medical Institutions

  2. Essondale Psychiatric Hospital

  3. Old Men’s Home, Victoria n.d.

  4. Residents, Old Men’s Home 1930s

  5. Poorhouse “ideal inmate” vs nursing home “ideal patient” __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ “Ideal inmate” _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ • hard-working • obedient • does not make trouble with other inmates _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ “Ideal patient” _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ • participates in occupational therapy • well-behaved • social/part of the institutional “family”

  6. Queen Alexandra Solarium for Crippled Children

  7. The Early Christian Hospital

  8. Rudimentary medical care Attached to religious organizations Huge variety of patient situations Illness as medical & spiritual event The Early Christian Hospital

  9. The Modern Scientific Hospital

  10. Montreal General Hospital

  11. professional evolution concepts of disease & treatment shift in patient-base efficiency model The Modern Scientific Hospital

  12. Michel Foucault & Institutions “The Gaze” • way in which the patient is regarded • reductionist • analytical • progressively more intense • linked to surveillance & institutional hierarchies

  13. Michel Foucault & Institutions “Social Control” • policing ‘deviant’ behaviour • sphere of biomedical power • places to hide away people that make us uncomfortable

  14. Erving Goffman & Institutions The “Total Institution” • medical institutions as separate worlds • disempowerment - symbolic & real rituals • punishment & reward • institutional efficiency

  15. New Institutional Models ‘Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.’ Ernest Dimnet, French priest & writer, 1932

  16. New Institutional Models

  17. hospice movement, 1960s patient choice & dignity family & the institution ‘homelike’ institutional decor New Institutional Models

  18. New Institutional Models

  19. “Starship”– Auckland, New Zealand

  20. A hospital should not be an isolated entity, it should be an integral part of the city. Not only attractive to those who have to be there, it should also become a place to visit. The atrium of the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto is such a place. Its cafeteria invites passersby to rest for awhile. The activities of the hospital are viewed through playrooms in the atrium to create a healing community. Eberhard Zieldler

  21. Montreal: CHUM

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