Detroit's Hospitals, Healers, and Helpers

Synopsis

The modern hospital evolved from both military garrisons and poorhouses. It wasn't until the mid-19th century that facilities with a wider purpose were founded in Detroit to combat diseases like cholera, tuberculosis, and mental illness. Religious institutions and benevolent societies established homes and treatment centers for the ill and abandoned, while public institutions were created for the very first time. This fascinating pictorial history of health care in the Detroit area features over 200 photographs and postcards of early hospitals, sanitariums, and orphanages, and the kindhearted people who staffed them. From St. Mary's, founded in 1845 and later known as Detroit Memorial Hospital, to Henry Ford Hospital, founded in 1915, this book documents the variety of institutions that sought to relieve or cure medical conditions. Most of these historic facilities no longer exist, and are known only by the photographs that preserve them. The images provide a rare glimpse of what health care was like at the turn of the century.

Copyright:

2004

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9781439614822

Related ISBNs:

9780738532233

Publisher:

Arcadia Publishing

Date of Addition:

06/08/16

Copyrighted By:

Patricia Ibbotson

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

History, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Biographies and Memoirs, Medicine

Submitted By:

Bookshare Staff

Usage Restrictions:

This is a copyrighted book.