The therapeutic landscape concept, first introduced early in the 1990s, has been widely employed in health/medical geography and gaining momentum in various health-related disciplines. This is the first book published in several years, and provides an introduction to the concept and its applications. Written by health/medical geographers and anthropologists, it addresses contemporary applications in the natural and built environments; for special populations, such as substance abusers; and in health care sites, a new and evolving area - and provides an array of critiques or contestations of the concept and its various applications. The conclusion of the work 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
Allison Williams is Associate Professor at the School of Geography and Earth Sciences, McMaster University, Canada.
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