Therapeutic landscapes
By: edited by Allison Williams.
Contributors: Williams, Allison, 1965-
Series: Geographies of health; Ashgate's geographies of health series
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Aldershot, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 373
ISBN-13: 9780754670995
Subjects: Landscape -- Therapeutic use.; Landscape -- Health aspects.; Medical geography.; Environmental health.; Geography.; Health Facility Environment.; Environment Design.; Holistic Health.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Introduction : the continuing maturation of the therapeutic landscape concept / Allison M. Williams; value: Ambiguous landscapes : sun, risk and recreation on New Zealand beaches / Damian Collins, Robin Kearns; value: The experiential economy of stillness : places of retreat in contemporary Britain / David Conradson; value: From Rishikesh to Yogaville : the globalization of therapeutic landscapes / Anne-Ce̓cile Hoyez; value: Healing landscapes in the Alps : Heidi by Johanna Spyri / Allison M. Williams; value: Making clean and sober places : the intersections of therapeutic landscapes and substance abuse treatment / Geoffrey DeVerteuil, Robert D. Wilton, Shaun Klassen; value: Anxious subjectivities and spaces of care : therapeutic geographies of the UK National Phobics Society / Joyce Davidson, Hester Parr; value: Preventive applications of the therapeutic landscapes concept in urban residential settings : a quantitative application / Matthias Braubach; value: A 'family-friendly' place : family leisure, identity and wellbeing - the zoo as therapeutic landscape / Bonnie C. Hallman; value: Application of concepts of therapeutic landscapes to the design of hospitals in the UK : the example of a mental health facility in London / Wilbert Gesler, Sarah Curtis; value: The writing's on the wall : decoding the interior space of the hospital waiting room / Valorie A. Crooks, Joshua Evans; value: Therapeutic landscapes for older people : care with commodification, liminality, and ambiguity / Malcolm P. Cutchin; value: Home as therapeutic landscape : family caregivers providing palliative care at home / Rhonda Donovan, Allison Williams; value: Gay bathhouses : the transgression of health in therapeutic places / Gavin J. Andrews, David Holmes; value: The therapeutic landscapes of the Kaqchikel of San Lucas Tolimán, Guatemala / Julie M. Sperling, Jody F. Decker; value: Restoration or risk? : exploring the place of the common place / Christine Milligan; value: Surviving profoundly unhealthy places : the ambivalent, fragile and absent therapeutic landscapes of the Soviet gulag / Geoffrey DeVerteuil, Gavin J. Andrews; value: Introduction : understanding therapeutic landscapes from the perspective of medical anthropology and environmental psychology / Julie Pranikoff, Setha Low; value: Therapeutic uses of place in the intentional space of purposive community / Brian A. Hoey; value: The therapeutic landscape of dementia care : contours of intersubjective spaces for sustaining the person / Athena McLean; value: Reclaiming the therapeutic value of public space through roadside art and memorials in rural Nevada / Dawn Einwalter; value: The construction of place as aesthetic-therapeutic / Peter Collins.