Social evolution of hospitals. How is it relevant for health policy?
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There are different kinds of hospitals. Doctors and nurses are the most prominent and visible components of a hospital. Development of nursing profession and medical technology have been two very significant factors in making hospitals a viable proposition. The hospitals were to start with very much as social institutions. The social basis of hospitals continues to be valid today. In this way, it is tried in this paper to highlight the evolution of different types of hospitals as social and technological institutions with the help of existing literature on history of hospitals and professions associated with it.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Bulletin of the Indian Institute of History of Medicine
دوره 24 2 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1994