Health Building Note 1 (HMSO revised 1988) advocates the integration of art in all health buildings.
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Health Building Notes do not pertain to Scotland, but the Scottish Office is represented on the Management Committee of the British Health Care Arts Centre.
4.
There are about 40 major tile works in British hospitals, mostly from 1880–1920, documented by J Greene in Brightening the Long Days (Tile Society 1989).
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Psychology and the environment, T. Lee, 1976 in the series Essential Psychology; Methuen.
6.
Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Gateshead was a site for a national Demonstration Project funded by the Department of Health in 1989–90. British Health Care Arts acted as advisers to the Department and initiated the stained glass project.
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The budget for 6 was £10,000, of which £6,000 came from the scheme budget (£285,000 allocated by DH). Gateshead Arts contributed £1,000 plus design fees and local project management. Northern Arts (the Arts Council region) contributed £3,000, and enabled one of the artists to undertake workshop sessions in the hospital, leading to a subsidiary piece.
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The British Health Care Arts Centre is the national organisation for advice, publication, research and development of arts (mainly visual) in health buildings. It can be contacted on 0382 23261.
9.
R.S. Ulrich in a paper published in Science (USA) 1984 “View of trees …” showed an average saving in recovery time from gall bladder surgery of about 0.7 of a day, with major reductions in analgesic doses.
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See IgnatiefMichael, The Needs of Strangers, Chatto 1984.
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See BancroftAnn, Origins of the Sacred, Arkana 1987.
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TennysonAlfred Lord, Morte d'Arthur. 1842.
13.
FrazerJamesSir, The Golden Bough, 1922.
14.
TillichPaul, The Meaning of Health, North Atlantic Books 1981. “When salvation has cosmic significance, healing is not only included in it, but salvation can be desribed as the act of “cosmic healing”. The root of the word “salvation” in many languages indicates this … Saos, salvus, heil, mean whole, not yet split … therefore healthy and sane.”.
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For discussion of the relation of psyche and some in psychosomatic illnesses, seen from the perspective of psychoanalysis, see Theatres of the Body, Joyce McDougal; Free Association Books 1989.
