Meanings
adjectiveantihospital (comparative more antihospital, superlative most antihospital)
comparative more antihospital · superlative most antihospital
- Opposing hospitals.
In 1948, Albert Deutsch's Shame of the States provided a devastating expose of the inhumanity in many (not all) public psychiatric hospitals. Growing public outrage built strong antihospital sentiment […]
1992, H. Richard Lamb, Leona L. Bachrach, Frederic I. Kass, Treating the Homeless Mentally Ill
Origin
From anti- + hospital. Piecewise doublet of antihotel.
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