The Medicalization of Space

The hospice movement has been successful in rehumanizing the space of paliasof care, so that it becomes home like and not institutional. And you don't want to be surrounded by medical equipment and lights buzzing and bells ringing or a kind of sense of medical hysteria around them. The book patic s pice god, my line, so to speak, to the extent that when i began to work with architects and designers in the field of hospital provision or home care provision or hospice provision,. we had to kind of take the battle head on with the medicalization of space.