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  2. History of hospitals - Wikipedia

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    Monastic hospitals developed many treatments, both therapeutic and spiritual. [34] During the thirteenth century an immense number of hospitals were built. The Italian cities were the leaders of the movement. Milan had no fewer than a dozen hospitals and Florence before the end of the fourteenth century had some thirty hospitals. Some of these ...

  3. History of psychiatry - Wikipedia

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    A number of hospitals known as bimaristans were built throughout Arab countries beginning around the early 9th century, with the first in Baghdad. [8] They sometimes contained wards for mentally ill patients, typically those who exhibited violence or had debilitating chronic illness.

  4. Asylum architecture in the United States - Wikipedia

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    1848 lithograph of the Kirkbride design of the Trenton State Hospital. The Quaker reformers, including Samuel Tuke, who promoted the moral treatment, as it was called, argued that patients should be unchained, granted respect, encouraged to perform occupational tasks (like farming, carpentry, or laundry), and allowed to stroll the grounds with an attendant and attend occasional dances. [5]

  5. Hospital - Wikipedia

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    These ideas harken back to the late eighteenth century, when the concept of providing fresh air and access to the 'healing powers of nature' were first employed by hospital architects in improving their buildings. [70] The research of British Medical Association is showing that good hospital design can reduce patient's recovery time.

  6. Combat stress reaction - Wikipedia

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    Army doctors "appeared to have no conception of breakdown in war and its treatment, though many of them had served in the 1914–1918 war." The first Middle East Force psychiatric hospital was set up in 1942. With D-Day for the first month there was a policy of holding casualties for only 48 hours before they were sent back over the Channel ...

  7. Nursing shortage in Canada - Wikipedia

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    By January 1943, 50% of Vancouver General Hospital's registered nurses were married women who had returned to work as nurses when encouraged by the hospital's administrators. [4] In response to the shortage of nurses, volunteers were used and nursing courses were accelerated, and new categories of regulated nursing were added to registered ...

  8. Shell shock - Wikipedia

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    At first, shell-shock casualties were rapidly evacuated from the front line – in part because of fear over their frequently dangerous and unpredictable behavior. [8] As the size of the British Expeditionary Force increased, and manpower became in shorter supply, the number of shell-shock cases became a growing problem for the military ...

  9. Occupational stress - Wikipedia

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    The causes of occupational stress can be placed into a broad category of what the main occupational stressor is and a more specific category of what causes occupational stress. The broad category of occupational stressors include some of the following: bad management practices, the job content and its demands, a lack of support or autonomy and ...