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This article focuses on health museums as a building type introduced to the architectural medium at the beginning of 20th century by modern thinking, the ideal of creating a healthy society as a guarantee of progress and development.
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As a specific type of building health museums are not majorly discussed in the history of architecture. A discussion concerning health, hygiene and architecture may clarify the relation between architecture and modernity.
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This page is a summary of: Modernity, Hygiene And The Display of the Body, MEGARON / Yıldız Technical University Faculty of Architecture E-Journal, January 2016, LookUs Bilisim, Ltd.,
DOI: 10.5505/megaron.2016.24196.
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