Therapeutic Landscapes

Allison Williams is Assistant Professor of Health Studies at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario.

• chapter 1 Introduction chapter 2 Rehabilitating Middle England: Integrating Ecology, Aesthetics, and Ethics chapter 3 Accessible Wilderness as a Therapeutic Landscape: Experiencing the Nature of Denali National Park, Alaska chapter 4 Summer Camp as a Therapeutic Landscape chapter 5 Place Identity and Therapeutic Landscapes: The Case of Home Care Workers in a Medically Underserviced Area chapter 6 Compromised Space: Contests over the Provision of a Therapeutic Environment for People with Mental Illness chapter 7 Mental Health and the Therapeutic Geographies of the City: Individual and Collective Negotiations chapter 8 The Street Gives and the Street Takes: Designing Housing for the Chronically Homeless chapter 9 Auckland's Starship Enterprise: Placing Metaphor in a Children's Hospital chapter 10 Healing Landscapes: Revolution and Health Care in Post-Socialist Havana chapter 11 Place, Space, and Geographies of Health Care: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives chapter 12 Index

The ten papers included in this collection represent an informative and innovative area of research within the geography of health... 'Therapeutic Landscapes' offers valuable insights into the complex interconnections between health and place. Thiscollection of papers has reasserted the importance of place by embracing perceptions of both material and symbolic landscapes in relation to health. This book is well worth reading... Health and Place The ten papers included in this collection represent an informative and innovative area of research within the geography of health... 'Therapeutic Landscapes' offers valuable insights into the complex interconnections between health and place. This collection of papers has reasserted the importance of place by embracing perceptions of both material and symbolic landscapes in relation to health. This book is well worth reading... Health and Place