Feeling blue (Colour and the modern British hospital)
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Product Details
Author:
Victoria Bates
Format:
Hardcover
Pages:
320
Publisher:
Manchester University Press (August 19, 2025)
Imprint:
Manchester University Press
Language:
English
Audience:
College/higher education
ISBN-13:
9781526168511
ISBN-10:
1526168510
Dimensions:
5.43" x 8.5"
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Folder:
TWO RIVERS
List Price:
$36.95
Country of Origin:
United Kingdom
Pub Discount:
65
Series:
Social Histories of Medicine
As low as:
$28.45
Publisher Identifier:
P-PER
Discount Code:
A
Weight:
23.36oz
Case Pack:
20
Overview
Feeling blue is the first book-length history of colour in modern hospitals. It examines colour in relation to six key themes – hygiene, emotion, humanisation, homeliness, play, consumerism – which are tied together by the idea of the ‘modern’ hospital. The book does not simply describe changes to the appearance of hospitals over time, but instead thinks expansively about the role of colour in shaping how hospitals felt. It uses colour to understand the layered meanings of modernity in twentieth-century Britain, and its relationship to the ‘mundane’ or everyday life of hospitals.








