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When Designs Became Interventions in Hospitals, AMA J Ethics 26:12 (Dec 2024) Forthcoming.

D. Kirk Hamilton, Jeanne Kisacky, Frank Zilm; “Critical Care 1950 to 2022: Evolution of Medicine, Nursing, Technology, and Design,” Critical Care Clinics, 39:3 (July 2023) 603-625. DOI: 10.1016/j.ccc.2023.01.002

Consequences of Migrating U.S. Contagious Facilities Into General Hospitals, 1900-1950. HERD: Health Environments Research & Design Journal, 15: (October 2021) 75-96. DOI: 10.1177/19375867211049818.

“A Room of One’s Own,” in Social Distance. GTA Papers 5. Ed. by Adam Jasper, gta Verlag, Zurich, 2021.

“An Architectural History of US Community Hospitals,” AMA J Ethics 21:3 (March 2019) E288-296. DOI: 10.1001/amajethics.2019.288.

“When Fresh Air Went Out of Fashion at Hospitals,” Smithsonian.com, Jun 14, 2017

“How Hospital Rooms Went from Airy Temples to “Inhuman” Machines: Architecture Used to Pamper Patients. Then Designers Began Prizing Efficiency,” June 7, 2017 on zocalopublicsquare.org

“Illuminations of Theme: How Critique can Teach Us What Our Work Is Trying to Say,” in Author in Progress: A No-Holds Barred Guide to What it Really Takes to Get Published, (New York: Writer’s Digest Books, 2016)

“Breathing Room: Calculating an Architecture of Air.” In Geometrical Objects: Architecture and the Mathematical Sciences 1400-1800, edited by Anthony Gerbino. (Archimedes 38, New Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology) Switzerland: Springer, 2014.

“Germs are in the Details: Aseptic Design and General Contractors at the Lying-In Hospital of the City of New York, 1897-1901,” Construction History, 28:1 (2013) 83-106.

“The Color of Surgery,” in Marilyn Delong and Barbara Martinson, eds., Color in Design, London/New York: Berg, 2012

“Restructuring Isolation: Hospital Architecture, Medicine, and Disease Prevention” Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 79:1 (Spring 2005), 1-49. 

“History and Science: Julien-David Leroy’s Dualistic Method of Architectural History,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians60: 3 (Sept 2001), 260-289.