Tag: Spring 2015
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The historical hospital of Santa Chiara in Pisa
Paola Lenzi Gianfranco Natale Pisa, Italy The cloister of the Santa Chiara’s Hospital with the arcades. In the background the leaning tower The historical Ospedale di Santa Chiara (Santa Chiara’s Hospital), located beside the beautiful Square of Miracles, traces its roots to A.D 325, when the Emperor Constantine issued a set of rules…
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The Bonifacio Hospital: reforming psychiatric hospital care
Panagiota Kitsantas Fairfax, Virginia, United States The Bonifacio Hospital, Florence, Italy In 1369-1377 Bonifacio Lupi, mayor of Florence and Captain of the People, founded the Bonifacio Hospital (Ospedale di Bonifacio) dedicated to St. John the Baptist. In the sixteenth century, the hospital admitted patients suffering from syphilis, known as the “French disease,” spread by troops…
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Roosevelt Hospital
Noah DeLoneNew York, United States The stretch of land between West 58th and West 59th street in Manhattan, abutted by 9th avenue, is not just a hospital, but a philosophical and humanitarian inheritance set into motion by its founder, James Roosevelt. Much of the life of James Roosevelt has been lost to history; much can…
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A lesson in horizontality: El Hospital San Vicente de Paúl in Medellin, Colombia
Moisés Enghelberg New York, United States Fountain at the Hospital Universitario San Vicente de Paúl This is not the story about another hospital, rebuilt from rubble after an earthquake. It is not even a story about perseverance, as much as it is about putting the pieces back together. It is also a story about…
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Baghdad Medical City
Lynn Sadler Pittsboro, North Carolina, United States Image of plaque owned by Armand Burgun and lent to Lynn Veach Sadler Can humans build and destroy simultaneously? Can they erect a gigantic, sprawling hospital complex as bombs drop, scud missiles home in, and anti-aircraft fire fills the air with flak? The Medical City of…
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The Albert Schweitzer Hospital in Lambaréné, Gabon
Judith WagnerMunich, Germany Welcome to the jungle It is a sultry day in equatorial Africa. The oppressive heat stifles all but the most necessary conversation between the few individuals perched on a wooden plank of the canoe floating along the vast lazy stream. On the banks of the Ogooué, lush vegetation drifts past. The monkeys’…
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The hospital on Profanity Hill
Josephine EnsignSeattle, United States When Harborview Hospital in Seattle opened its doors to patients in 1931, advertising posters portrayed the striking fifteen-story Art Deco building as a shining beacon of light, the great cream-colored hope on the hill overlooking the small provincial town clinging to the shores of Puget Sound. “Above the brightness of the…
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The Klinikum Aachen
Joerg Albrecht Chicago, Illinois, United States The Klinikum Aachen with helipad The Klinikum of the Rhenish-Westfalian Technical University in Aachen (Aix-la-Chapelle) evokes reactions in everyone who sees it. As seen from the nearby rolling pastures of the Dutch border, its towers abruptly obstruct the countryside like a beached aircraft carrier. Even closer, viewed…
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The history of Bethlem Hospital
Janice Tiao Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, United States Bethlem Hospital Perhaps no hospital has made its mark on human imagination as much as Bethlem Hospital, located outside London. The first hospital in England to specialize in the care of the insane, Bethlem gave birth to the caricature of the lunatic asylum as a place filled with…