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The healing presence of art : a history of western art in hospitals / Richard Cork.

By: Publisher: New Haven [Conn.] ; London : Yale University Press, [2012]Copyright date: ©2012Description: xi, 460 pages : illustrations (some color), photographs ; cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780300170368 (cloth : alk. paper)
Other title:
  • History of western art in hospitals
Subject(s):
Contents:
Introduction -- Salvation in Siena -- Madonna of mercy -- The Harrowing of Hell -- Rescuing the orphans -- Blood of the martyrs -- The burning sickness -- Portraying the patients -- Visions of redemption -- The anatomists knife and regents charity.
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Book NMC Library Stacks RA967 .C617 2012 1 Available 33039001212827

Includes bibliographical references (pages 434-451) and index.

Introduction -- Salvation in Siena -- Madonna of mercy -- The Harrowing of Hell -- Rescuing the orphans -- Blood of the martyrs -- The burning sickness -- Portraying the patients -- Visions of redemption -- The anatomists knife and regents charity.