Feeling Blue
Colour and the Modern British Hospital
Seiten
2025
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-6851-1 (ISBN)
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-6851-1 (ISBN)
This book is the first historical study of colour in modern British hospitals, examining the use of colour to understand the layered meanings of modernity in twentieth-century Britain. -- .
Feeling blue is the first book-length history of colour in modern hospitals. It examines colour in relation to six key themes – hygiene, emotion, humanisation, homeliness, play, consumerism – which are tied together by the idea of the ‘modern’ hospital. The book does not simply describe changes to the appearance of hospitals over time, but instead thinks expansively about the role of colour in shaping how hospitals felt. It uses colour to understand the layered meanings of modernity in twentieth-century Britain, and its relationship to the ‘mundane’ or everyday life of hospitals. -- .
Feeling blue is the first book-length history of colour in modern hospitals. It examines colour in relation to six key themes – hygiene, emotion, humanisation, homeliness, play, consumerism – which are tied together by the idea of the ‘modern’ hospital. The book does not simply describe changes to the appearance of hospitals over time, but instead thinks expansively about the role of colour in shaping how hospitals felt. It uses colour to understand the layered meanings of modernity in twentieth-century Britain, and its relationship to the ‘mundane’ or everyday life of hospitals. -- .
Victoria Bates is Associate Professor in Modern Medical History at the University of Bristol -- .
Introduction
1 White: modernity and materiality
2 Green: from efficiency to emotions
3 Arts: humanising healthcare
4 Patterns: homeliness in the hospital
5 Red: risk and reward
6 Glass: clarity and consumerism
Conclusions: white to bright
Index -- .
| Erscheinungsdatum | 30.07.2025 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Social Histories of Medicine |
| Zusatzinfo | 65 colour illustrations (some in parts) |
| Verlagsort | Manchester |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 138 x 216 mm |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Design / Innenarchitektur / Mode |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) | |
| Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin | |
| Technik ► Architektur | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-5261-6851-0 / 1526168510 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-5261-6851-1 / 9781526168511 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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