The hospital as a public sphere
- By Daniel Goujon
- and Jacques Poisat
Pages 119 to 126
Cite this article
- GOUJON, Daniel
- and POISAT, Jacques,
- Goujon, Daniel.
- et al.
- Goujon, D.
- and Poisat, J.
https://doi.org/10.4267/2042/9366
Cite this article
- Goujon, D.
- and Poisat, J.
- Goujon, Daniel.
- et al.
- GOUJON, Daniel
- and POISAT, Jacques,
https://doi.org/10.4267/2042/9366
Microcosms of society, symbolic places where basic human and social relationships are formed, place of memory, hospitals have witnessed great changes in their functions over the years. They’ve been in turn places of welcome, places of confinement, « healing machines », the mainspring of health policies, and they are nowadays both (and maybe in a contradictory way too) government run institutions and healthcare business. However, under the pressure of a few basic social evolutions, hospitals would seen to gradually opening up to the outside, to be turning themselves from strongholds of health services into « spares open to the public », with natural and supportive values. Among these evolutions, the development of supportive initiatives in the hospital environment, such as the setup of local community based solidarity actions in partnership with outside, seems to be playing an important part.
Keywords
- public sphères
- héritage
- solidarity-based economy
- hospital
Publisher keywords: héritage, hospital, public sphères, solidarity-based economy