Therapeutic landscapes: A history of English hospital gardens since 1800

by Clare Hickman

Therapeutic landscapes uniquely brings together historical and contemporary debates on the use of the garden as a therapeutic space. Hickman narrates the story of the landscapes associated with psychiatric, general and specialist medical institutions and asks what did they look like, how were they used and how did this relate to medical concepts? It traces the history of these gardens from the grottos, Chinese galleries and summer houses of elite...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719086604
• ISBN13: 9780719086601
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.6" x 8.6"