title: 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 addition to contributing to a theoretically-informed health geography, this paper further develops the concept of therapeutic landscapes and the understanding of holistic medicine.
authors.affiliation: Health Studies Program, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ont., Canada.
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authors.lastname: Williams
mesh_terms: D000529:Complementary Therapies; D003469:Culture; D006694:Holistic Health; D006801:Humans; D010686:Philosophy, Medical; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D012945:Social Values