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Feeling blue

Colour and the modern British hospital

By Victoria Bates

Feeling blue
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  • ISBN: 9781526168511
  • Publish Date: Aug 2025
  • Publisher: Manchester University Press
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    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.

    Contents

    Introduction
    1 White: Modernity and materiality
    2 Green: From efficiency to emotions
    3 Arts: Humanising healthcare
    4 Patterns: Homeliness in the hospital
    5 Red: Risk and reward
    6 Glass: Clarity and consumerism
    Conclusions: White to Bright
    Index

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    Victoria Bates is Associate Professor in Modern Medical History at the University of Bristol

    Feeling blue

    By Victoria Bates

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