Therapeutic landscapes in holistic medicine

Journal/Book: Soc Sci Med. 1998; 46: The Boulevard, Langford Lane, Kidlington, Oxford, England OX5 1GB. Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd. 1193-1203.

Abstract: Therapeutic landscapes are places, settings, situations, locales, and milieus that encompass both the physical and psychological environments associated with treatment or healing, and the maintenance of health and well-being. Practices from holistic medicine - also known as nonconventional, alternative, complementary or traditional medicine - are used to illustrate specific humanistic concepts in further examining therapeutic landscapes. In addition to contributing to a theoretically-informed health geography, this paper further develops the concept of therapeutic landscapes and the understanding of holistic medicine.

Note: Article Williams A, Brock Univ, Hlth Studies Program, St Catharines, ON L2S 3A1, CANADA

Keyword(s): therapeutic landscapes; holistic medicine; humanistic geography; CULTURAL-GEOGRAPHY; UNITED-STATES; HEALTH; PLACE; SPACE; PRACTITIONERS; LOWRY,MALCOLM; INVITATION; THERAPIES

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