Healing Places

Wilbert M. Gesler (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

144 Seiten

2003
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-0-7425-1956-5 (ISBN)

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Wil Gesler examines how different environments affect physical, mental, spiritual, social, and emotional components of healing.

Is there healing beyond the walls of a modern hospital? Healing Places looks at how different environments affect our physical, mental, spiritual, social, and emotional healing. It sets out four dimensions found in healing environments—natural, built, symbolic, and social—and applies these ideas to three places that achieved a lasting reputation for healing: Epidauros in Greece, Bath in England, and Lourdes in France. Gesler's engaging and innovative approach draws from a variety of fields, from geography and environmental psychology to medicine, sociology, and anthropology. Comparing these healing places to today's hospital, Gesler shows that place and healing are inextricably linked and advocates that health care should go well beyond biomedical solutions.

Wilbert M. Gesler is professor emeritus of geography at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a visiting professor of geography at Queen Mary, University of London.

Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Epidauros: Asclepius and Dream Healing
Chapter 3 Bath: Healing Mineral Springs
Chapter 4 Lourdes: Healing Pilgrimages
Chapter 5 Therapeutic Hospital Environments
Chapter 6 Conclusion

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.5.2003
Sprache	englisch
Maße	149 x 226 mm
Gewicht	213 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sozialpsychologie
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Arbeits- / Sozial- / Umweltmedizin
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Naturheilkunde
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
ISBN-10	0-7425-1956-2 / 0742519562
ISBN-13	978-0-7425-1956-5 / 9780742519565
Zustand	Neuware