Domestic residence to multi-storey building. The lived experience of hospital grounds in Melbourne before World War II

Bourke, Anne

doi:10.1016/j.healthplace.2012.06.005

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“…In turn, the same pattern of geographical location can also be observed in all cases in the Eixample district: proximity to clinics and hospitals and proximity to means of transport. Certainly, the architectural, urban, medical and business model of Barcelona's surgical clinics is unique and shows characteristics that bring them closer together and also differentiate them in this period from the concentration of medical services in London's Harley Street (Humphrey 2004), from the creation of a real medical neighborhood like Vienna's Medizin-Viertel (Rentetzi 2004), of the large hospital mansions in Melbourne far from the centre and with domestic surroundings (Bourke 2012), the "house-clinics" established by some doctors in Toronto (Adams and Burke 2008), or the design of the "surgical suites"the operating room surrounded by small preparatory roomswhich characterized the North American hospitals designed by the architects Stevens and Lee (Adams 1999). In any case, it precedes and surpasses in number and presence the few clinics that were installed in those years in Madrid (Álvarez-Sierra 1952), Valencia (García Ferrandis 2021), San Sebastián (Solórzano 2004), Toledo 19 or Palma de Mallorca (Rodríguez Tejerina 1995), among other Spanish cities, during the period under study.…”

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Private surgery clinics in an open medical market: Barcelona, 1880s-1936

Orellana

2021

J. evol. stud. bus.

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The main purpose of this article is to examine how a new medical technology – the operating room- resulted in the establishment of a model of private clinics in late 19th – century Barcelona. This research explains that this kind of private medical care happened in an open medical market and successfully met a growing demand. Since its origins in the 1880s, private surgery clinics rose to more than 50 in just half-a-century. Here, several business strategies put at work by those surgeons-entrepreneurs are considered, especially those related to publicity and the search of patients/customers. Several aspects played a paramount role in that success: medical technology, domestic comfort, and surgical efficacy. In a context where medical care delivered at hospital was provided by the city-state or the local bourgeoisie as a part of the medieval model of charity, a potential customer for the private surgery clinics was formed by the urban, popular and working classes through the model of mutual aid societies and health insurance companies. Moreover, private clinics also showed how the process of medical specialization was configured and what kind of relationships surgeons-entrepreneurs established with general practitioners to attract their patients. Here, medical directories and medical journals reveal as a useful source of information.

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