Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Trim: 6¼ x 9¼
978-0-7425-1955-8 • Hardback • March 2003 • $122.00 • (£94.00)
978-0-7425-1956-5 • Paperback • March 2003 • $50.00 • (£38.00)
978-1-4616-6540-3 • eBook • March 2003 • $47.00 • (£36.00)
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
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 wellbeing, both historically and in the present day.
— Area
Healing Places asserts emphatically and eloquently that place matters to health. The case studies provide fascinating evidence that links between healing and place are well grounded in history and are now being reconsidered in hospital design. This book will be important reading for researchers, teachers, and professionals with an interest in health care settings. [It] adds weight to a major shift in contemporary thinking: reassessing the links between place and health.
— Robin A. Kearns, The University of Auckland