Therapeutic Landscapes

The therapeutic landscape concept, first introduced early in the 1990s, has been widely employed in health/medical geography and is gaining momentum in various health-related disciplines. This volume provides a critical evaluation of the development and progress of the concept to date, signposting the likely avenues for future investigation.

Contents: Preface; Introduction: the continuing maturation of the therapeutic landscape concept, Allison M. Williams; Part 1 Traditional Therapeutic Landscapes: Natural and Built Environments: Ambiguous landscapes: sun, risk and recreation on New Zealand beaches, Damian Collins and Robin Kearns; The experimental economy of stillness: places of retreat in contemporary Britain, David Conradson; From Rishikesh to Yogaville: the globalization of therapeutic landscapes, Anne-Cécile Hoyez; Healing landscapes in the Alps: Heidi by Johanna Spyri, Allison M. Williams. Part 2 Therapeutic Geographies for Special Populations: Making clean and sober places: the intersections of therapeutic landscapes and substance abuse treatment, Geoffrey DeVeteuil, Robert D. Wilton and Shaun Klassen; Anxious subjectivities and spaces of care: therapeutic geographies of the UK National Phobics Society, Joyce Davidson and Hester Parr; Preventative applications of the therapeutic landscapes concept in urban residential settings: a quantitative application, Matthias Braubach; A 'family friendly' place: family leisure, identity and wellbeing - the zoo as therapeutic landscape, Bonnie Hallman. Part 3 Applications in Health Care Sites: Applications of concepts of therapeutic landscapes to the design of hospitals in the UK: the example of a mental health facility in London, Wil Gesler and Sarah Curtis; The writing's on the wall: decoding the interior spaces of the hospital waiting room, Valorie A. Crookes and Joshua Evans; Therapeutic landscapes for older people: care with commodification, liminality, and ambiguity, Malcolm P. Cutchin; Home as therapeutic landscape: family caregivers providing palliative care at home, Rhonda Donovan and Allison Williams. Part 4 Contesting Landscapes as Therapeutic: Contemporary Advances: Gay bathhouses: the transgression of health in therapeutic places, Gavin J. Andrews and Dave Holmes; The therapeutic landscapes of the Kaqchikel of San Lucas Tolimán, Guatemala, J