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Therapeutic landscapes in holistic medicine
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Therapeutic landscapes in holistic medicine

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 …

Authors

Williams A

Journal

Social Science & Medicine, Vol. 46, No. 9, pp. 1193–1203

Publisher

Elsevier

Publication Date

May 1998

DOI

10.1016/s0277-9536(97)10048-x

ISSN

0277-9536