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Healing Places
Wilbert M. Gesler
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Description for Healing Places
Hardback. Wil Gesler examines how different environments affect physical, mental, spiritual, social, and emotional components of healing. Num Pages: 144 pages, bibliog , index. BIC Classification: MBNH2; MBNH9; MX; RGC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 326.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
144
Condition
New
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780742519558
SKU
V9780742519558
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99-15
About Wilbert M. Gesler
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.
Reviews for Healing Places
Gesler brings important insights to our understanding of healing, making innovative connections between different kinds of environments in the process. He highlights the complexity of health, and the importance of understanding how healing takes place in, and is shaped by particular places. Healing Places demonstrates clearly that geographers have an important and original contribution to make in understanding health and ... Read more