Talk:Children's hospital

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The article needs a history section, a section on cultural differences in the development and scope of these specialty hospitals, and some appropriate references. --Una Smith (talk) 20:30, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

Ranking

Can anyone explain why a list of one magazine's ten "best" US hospitals is included in this article? Does knowing that Lucille Packard is "only" number ten tell you anything about the concept of a hospital that specializes in pediatrics? Does a list of ten US hospitals have any value for people in Africa, Asia, or Europe? What's the point? WhatamIdoing (talk) 21:20, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

Sure. It gives a short list of concrete examples of the leaders in the field. It would be great to mention the top children's hospitals elsewhere in the world too. I don't have that data. This page doesn't call for the exhaustive List of children's hospitals to be included, but having a few prominent links gives the reader, from anywhere in the world, a path to find more information on the subject. Furthermore, these hospitals represent the best of the field. If these 10 are not the world's best, they are not far off either. -- Austin Murphy (talk) 15:09, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

This ranking section relates only to the United States and is not of general interest. I propose merging the information from this section with the US-specific article, Health care in the United States. --Kwekubo (talk) 18:31, 3 October 2010 (UTC)

Plan to edit History section

I plan on adding to the brief but existing history section for the Children's Hospital page. A detailed history section is needed to fully understand not only why children's hospitals were created but how and by whom. Moreover, it is important to address the shift from volunteer hospitals to the intricate institutions now seen in almost every major city around the world. The history section will have subsections which will focus on different aspects of the overall history. I plan to add subsections that will address the middle class women's role in the creation of children's hospitals, hospital reforms, and influential people. Furthermore, I want to compare and contrast early models for these hospitals compared to our modern models. Moreover, these subsections will contain hyperlinks to different pages such as pediatrics, history of hospitals, and people so that there is not to much overlap on this page for subjects that have their own page.

Duffin, Jacalyn. History of Medicine: A Scandalously Short Introduction. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010.

Golding, A.M.B. “The life and times of Thomas Coram 1668–1751.” Public Health 121 no. 2 (2007) 154-156. doi:10.1016/j.puhe.2006.09.019.

Risse, Guenter B. Mending bodies, saving souls: A history of hospitals. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Sloane, David. “'Not Designed Merely to Heal': Women Reformers and the Emergence of Children's Hospitals.” The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. 4, no. 4 (2015): 331-354. doi:10.1017/S1537781400002747.

Svobodný, Petr. “Social and Health Care of Children in Central Europe : The Italian Hospital in Prague in the 17th–18th Century.” Hygiea internationali 6 no. 1 (2007): 79-92. doi:10.3384/hygiea.1403-8668.076179.

Waller, John. Health and Wellness in 19th-Century America. Westport: ABC-CLIO, 2014. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Aplin33 (talk • contribs) 05:41, 11 February 2016 (UTC)

I think this is will be a critical addition to this page, Aplin33, and this bibliography is a good start. I'm wondering about the role of churches and religious orders in early children's hospitals - was their one? Remember to be specific about the scope of your topic; if your sources pertain mostly to North American examples, then make this clear in your writing; ditto if your sources seem to be more about Europe. You can't be more comprehensive than the sources allow. I am a bit concerned about the suggestion that you might compare and contrast older hospitals with newer ones; you want to make this kind of comparison possible for readers, but including a section that explicitly compares them will be too argumentative for Wikipedia.

You can find more sources by looking at the article from the Encyclopedia of Childhood and Youth -- check out its bibliography on Children's Hospitals (click on the 1) [[1]].

Continue your research, and have a look at this Wikipedia article, especially the sections on Encyclopedia tone and style. It will be useful as you plan your piece. Cliomania (talk) 21:49, 19 February 2016 (UTC)

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