De l’Hôtel Dieu à l’Hôpital Saint Louis, de la Salpêtrière à Val de Grâce, en passant par des musées insolites, Gary Lee Kraut explique dans le journal anglophone « The Connexion » combien le patrimoine hospitalier et médical à Paris est aussi riche qu’il est effrayant. Son article « Hospitals with heritage » paraît dans le numéro de septembre de « The Connexion », le journal des expatriés anglophones en France.
« The idea of visiting a medical facility for pleasure may seem absurd, but Paris has such rich, if sometimes horrific, hospital and medical heritage that it deserves recognition this month as France celebrates its broad range of heritage sites.
« Though ignored by tourists and little visited by residents, hospital courtyards and chapels and medical-related sights and museums reveal much about the social, religious and medical history of health care of France as well as about care for the poor and the destitute. Furthermore, some hospital courtyards are so peaceful and charming that visiting them is a form of therapy to treat urban pathologies caused by car fumes, relentless noise, and aggressive commerce… »
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