Tracing Hospital Boundaries

Jane Stevens Crawshaw, MA (hons), MPhil, Ph.D. (2008) University of Cambridge, is Senior Lecturer in Early Modern European History at Oxford Brookes University. In 2012 she published her first book, which was the first holistic study of the development of quarantine and public health in early modern Venice. She has published articles and book chapters on a number of aspects of the social, cultural, environmental and gender history of health in Renaissance Italy.Irena Benyovsky Latin is a scholarly advisor at the Department of Medieval History, Croatian Institute of History. Her research focuses on medieval urban history in the Eastern Adriatic (especially Trogir and Dubrovnik), urban social topography, the development of medieval urban institutions and the relationship between cities and central authorities. Since 2015 she has been the PL of the research project "Towns and Cities of the Croatian Middle Ages: Urban Elites and Urban Space“, supported by the Croatian Science Foundation. She is the Croatian representative on the International Committee of the History of Towns.

“This creative, insightful collection can be a useful resource in graduate and upper-level seminars on historical methodology and public health, and may also be used as supplementary reading for appropriate regional and global studies courses.Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates. Graduate students and faculty.”-J. P. Davis (Hopkinsville Community College), CHOICE, Vol. 58 (8), 2021.“Tracing Hospital Boundaries encompasses both understandings of the hospital within its very broad chronological sweep, from the eleventh to the twentieth century. Alongside the significant new research on hospitals, their patients, and their contexts presented in its individual chapters, a major contribution of the volume is how it allows historians of the medieval, early modern, and modern hospital to learn from each other. […]This richly researched and wide-ranging volume advances our understanding of the hospital in all its meanings and associations.”-Leslie Topp (Birkbeck, University of London), Isis, Vol. 112 (3), 2021, 590-591 pp.

• AcknowledgementsList of FiguresNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: Hospitals, Integration and SegregationJane Stevens Crawshaw and Gordan RavančićPart 1: Patient Identity and Experience1 Beyond the City’s Walls: The Lepers of Narbonne and Siena before the Black DeathAnna M. Peterson2 Leprosaria: The Simultaneity of Segregation and Integration in Early Modern Southern German TownsAnnemarie Kinzelbach3 The Role of Segregation and Integration in Identity Formation for Foundlings in Early Modern DubrovnikRina Kralj-Brassard and Ivana Lazarević4 “San Servolo Lunatic!”: Segregation and Integration in the Life Cycle of Pellagra Patients at Venice’s Provincial Asylums (1842–1912)David Gentilcore and Egidio PrianiPart 2: Hospital Form and Organisation5 Shelter and Custody. Identifying and treating Physical and Mental Disabilities in Eighteenth-Century Hessian High HospitalsChristina Vanja6 From Isolation to Integration: the Institutional Treatment of Burns Patients in Britain, c.1845–1950Jonathan Reinarz7 Segregating or Integrating Chronic Patients in Twentieth-century American HospitalsGeorge Weisz8 “Dirty Dirty Dirt”: Automating Segregation in the Friesen Concept HospitalDavid TheodorePart 3: Hospital Location and Context9 Sacral Topography, Charity and Hospitals in Late Medieval KotorValentina Živković10 Female Piety and Gendered Spaces: Women’s Hospitals in Renaissance DubrovnikIrena Benyovsky Latin11 Government Hospitals as a Microcosm: Integration and Segregation in Salisbury Hospital, Rhodesia, 1890s–1950Clement MasakureThematic bibliographyIndex