Abstract
Healing and cultural taboos of disease can be detected within the layout of buildings associated with healing and the ill. Building arrangements can also inform us of social perception towards the sick and their treatment. Aim of this chapter is to rectify this disparity in academic discourse by using medieval Islamic hospitals as a case-study to demonstrate how physical spaces of healing are shaped by social attitudes towards the ill and philosophical understandings of treatment and care. It discusses how hospital construction might reveal social rules of illness and treatment; therefore, furthering awareness of spatial concepts regarding medical practice. The chapter focuses on the Islamic hospitals, it must be made clear that the medical practices, and hence influences on architecture, were not isolated from Christian and Jewish traditions and possibly those from further afield given the interaction made through long-distance trade and the events of the time. Keywords:architecture; Healing; medical practice; medieval Islamic hospitals; philosophical; social perception; spatial concepts; structural design
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