Healing spaces : the science of place and well-being /
Sternberg, Esther M
Healing spaces : the science of place and well-being / Esther M. Sternberg. - First Harvard University Press paperback edition. - 343 pages ; 21 cm
Originally published: 2009
Includes bibliographical references (pages [299]-324) and index.
Healing places -- Seeing and hearing -- Sound and silence -- Cotton wool and clouds of frankincense -- Mazes and labyrinths -- Finding your way ... -- ... and losing it -- Healing thought and healing prayer -- Hormones of hope and healing -- Hospitals and well-being -- Healing cities, healing world -- Healing gardens and my place of peace.
Does the world make you sick? If the distractions and distortions around you, the jarring colors and sounds, could shake up the healing chemistry of your mind, might your surroundings also have the power to heal you? This is the question Esther Sternberg explores in Healing Spaces, a look at the marvelously rich nexus of mind and body, perception and place.
9780674057487 (pbk.) 0674057481 (pbk.)
Architectural design--Health aspects.
Hospital Design and Construction.
Architecture as Topic.
Environment Design.
Health Facility Environment.
RA770 / .S74 2010
725.51
Healing spaces : the science of place and well-being / Esther M. Sternberg. - First Harvard University Press paperback edition. - 343 pages ; 21 cm
Originally published: 2009
Includes bibliographical references (pages [299]-324) and index.
Healing places -- Seeing and hearing -- Sound and silence -- Cotton wool and clouds of frankincense -- Mazes and labyrinths -- Finding your way ... -- ... and losing it -- Healing thought and healing prayer -- Hormones of hope and healing -- Hospitals and well-being -- Healing cities, healing world -- Healing gardens and my place of peace.
Does the world make you sick? If the distractions and distortions around you, the jarring colors and sounds, could shake up the healing chemistry of your mind, might your surroundings also have the power to heal you? This is the question Esther Sternberg explores in Healing Spaces, a look at the marvelously rich nexus of mind and body, perception and place.
9780674057487 (pbk.) 0674057481 (pbk.)
Architectural design--Health aspects.
Hospital Design and Construction.
Architecture as Topic.
Environment Design.
Health Facility Environment.
RA770 / .S74 2010
725.51