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What is hospitalism?

What is hospitalism? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (psychology) wasting away of infants in long-term institutional care, caused by lack of contact with caregivers
  2. (medicine) A vitiated condition of the body, due to long confinement in a hospital, or the morbid condition of the atmosphere of a hospital.
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He was one of the first to set to work with method to investigate this question of hospitalism.
However, hospitalism is not necessarily the destiny of all children brought up without their mothers.
In the Neonatal Departments of the Khmelnytsky City Children's Hospital early mental stimulation of orphans, designed to combat hospitalism, is carried out.
This debate today could well be called a debate on hospitalism, the name applied in the mid-19th century to often fatal post-operative infection.

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