title: Nature's good for you: sir Truby King, Seacliff Asylum, and the greening of health care in New Zealand, 1889-1922.
abstract: Sir Frederic Truby King's work at Seacliff Asylum in New Zealand, between 1889 and 1922, illustrates a prominent role of agriculture in relationship to human health and the environment. King utilized farming practices, a rural setting, occupational therapy, dietary changes and moves towards self-sufficiency as examples of asylum management practices, but these also ensured patient health and well-being. In this article, we analyze King's practices at Seacliff as a genealogical precursor to today's green care and care farming movements.
authors.affiliation: University of Kansas, Sociology and the Environmental Studies Program, 1415 Jayhawk Boulevard, Room 739, Fraser Hall, Lawrence, KS 66045-7556, United States. paul.stock@ku.edu
authors.forename: Paul V
authors.initials: PV
authors.lastname: Stock
authors.forename: Chris
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Brickell
mesh_terms: D000383:Agriculture; D005260:Female; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000628:therapy*; D019368:Nature; D009520:New Zealand