Healing waters
Subtitle: therapeutic landscapes in historic and contemporary Ireland
By: by Ronan Foley.
Series: Ashgate's geographies of health series
Publisher: Ashgate Pub. Co.
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 213
ISBN-13: 9780754676522; 9780754676539
Subjects: Landforms -- Ireland; Landforms -- Northern Ireland; Landscapes -- Ireland; Ireland -- Historical geography
Description: This book investigates associations between water, health, place and culture in Ireland. It is informed by a humanistic approach, showing how health and place are socially and culturally constructed and how health is embodied, experienced and enacted in place. In addition, the book argues that an understanding of health and place must also consider the historical, societal and cultural orthodoxies that shape and produce those places.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.