Shift Work: The Hospital in Histories of Architecture and Medicine

Other| June 01 2024 Shift Work: The Hospital in Histories of Architecture and Medicine Annmarie Adams Annmarie Adams McGill University Annmarie Adams studies the cultural landscapes of homes and hospitals. She is a fellow of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada, the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences, and the Society of Architectural Historians. She currently serves as president of the Canadian Society for the History of Medicine. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (2024) 83 (2): 134–147. https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2024.83.2.134 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures Shift Work: The Hospital in Histories of Architecture and Medicine. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 1 June 2024; 83 (2): 134–147. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2024.83.2.134 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentJournal of the Society of Architectural Historians Search Where do medicine and architecture intersect?1 I think about this question every day, especially during the past seven years or so as I have been teaching both medical and architecture students. A favorite image shows architect Eberhard Zeidler and physician-administrator John Evans admiring the model for the revolutionary McMaster University Health Sciences Centre, which opened in 1972 and arguably put Canada on the international hospital design map (Figure 1). The Zeidler–Evans relationship represents a key moment when the two professions worked together productively on a building and the collaboration resulted in a truly revolutionary project, as hospitals go.2 The two fields have distinct approaches to historical research. Medical historians tend to see architecture as an illustration of medical progress, while architectural historians engage the built environment as evidence of medical change (and sometimes nonchange).3 Examples remind us how often medical history books feature images of buildings,... You do not currently have access to this content.