Feeling Blue

Colour and the Modern British Hospital

Victoria Bates (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

328 Seiten

2025
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-6851-1 (ISBN)

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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. -- .

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 -- .

Erscheint lt. Verlag	19.8.2025
Reihe/Serie	Social Histories of Medicine
Zusatzinfo	65 colour illustrations (some in parts)
Verlagsort	Manchester
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	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