Thesis ID: CBB001561445

The Impact of the Nineteenth-Century Public Health Movement upon American Architecture: Theories of Disease, Ventilation, and Sunlight, 1840--1944 (2006)

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Ross, James Owen (Author)


Brown University
Meckel, Richard Alan


Publication Date: 2006
Edition Details: Advisor: Meckel, Richard Alan
Physical Details: 314 pp.
Language: English

This dissertation initiates an alternate understanding of nineteenth- and twentieth-century American architecture by examining how the three stages of an evolving theory of disease between 1840 and 1944 impacted upon the shaping of buildings, interiors, furnishings, the profession of architecture, and the urban environment in general. Beginning in the late 1880's, germ theory had a profound impact upon the early modern movement. Beyond that, this study elucidates how the search for the cure for TB, once thought to be inherited, had an even more significant impact upon early twentieth-century buildings and their interiors, as well as cities. The study highlights the impact the evolving theory of disease had upon high rise buildings, hospitals, schools, high density housing, T.B. Sanitaria, building interiors and furnishings, and urban planning in general. The study ends in 1944 when medical therapeutics through advancements in pharmaceuticals produced a cocktail of drugs that brought tuberculosis under control. Primary sources in the study were based upon historic documents (e.g., annual reports of school committees and hospital boards, and building codes and ordinances) of the following cities: Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Denver, New York City, Providence, and St. Louis. The study also draws upon the annual meeting reports, and publications of the American Institute of Architecture (AIA), American Medical Association (AMA), and the American Public Health Association (APH).

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Description Cited in Diss. Abstr. Int. A 67/08 (2007). UMI pub. no. 3227923.


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Authors & Contributors
Carter, Eric D.
Rune Svarverud
M. Kemal Temel
Dwyer, Michael
Tumbe, Chinmay
Collins, Julie
Concepts
Public health
Prevention and control of disease
Disease and diseases
Medicine and government
Bacteriology
Epidemics
Time Periods
20th century, early
19th century
18th century
Places
United States
England
Argentina
Burundi
Ankara (Turkey)
Istanbul (Turkey)
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