Architecture and health care: a place for sociology

Sociologists of health and illness have tended to overlook the architecture and

yielded a body of work on the significance of places and spaces in the experience

environment in the performance of medical practice uncovers an important vein of

hospital architecture, this article seeks to tease out substantive and methodological

Contemporary healthcare buildings manifest design models developed for hotels,

forms of subjectivity in which patients are constituted as consumers and

architecture necessitates an appreciation of both the construction and experience of

everyday uses. Combining approaches and methods from the sociology of health

agenda that takes healthcare buildings as its substantive focus.