sanatoria have also been researched by a number of other scholars.^200 Similar, com-
prehensive studies on Finnish sanatoria have not been made, despite the fact that
they were quite notable as a phenomenon in the 1930s. From the perspective of this
study, a work of great importance is Annemarie Adams’ research into North Amer-
ican and Canadian hospital architecture, Medicine by Design, The Architect and The
Modern Hospital, 1893–1943.^201 An in-depth monograph on the history and repair
of Zonnestraal Sanatorium has been published only recently.^202 Similarly, Adrian
Forty’s study on the social and medical ambitions behind hospital architecture has
inspired many other researchers, including myself. According to Forty, there is no
clear causal relationship between medicine and hospital construction and, when
studying hospital architecture, it is advisable to devote attention to the motives of the
different stakeholders contributing to the hospital design.^203
200 See e.g. Åman 1976, Tavares 2005, Ruiloba Quecedo 2013b and Châtelet 2014.
201 See Adams 2008.
202 The publication Sanatorium Zonnestraal concentrates mainly on the restoration of the building designed in 1926
and it was authored by a team of writers. Meurs and van Thoor eds. 2010.
203 Forty 1984, p. 61; Adams 2008, p. xviii.