A richly illustrated exploration of how late Georgian gardens associated with medical practitioners advanced science, education, and agricultural experimentation As Britain grew into an ever-expanding empire during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, new and exotic botanical specimens began to arrive within the nation's public and private spaces. Gardens became sites not just of leisure, sport, and aesthetic enjoyment, but also of scientific inquiry and knowledge dissemination. Medical practitioners used their botanical training to capitalize on the growing fashion for botanical collecting and agricultural experimentation in institutional, semipublic, and private gardens across Britain. This book highlights the role of these medical practitioners in the changing use of gardens in the late Georgian period, marked by a fluidity among the ideas of farm, laboratory, museum, and garden. Placing these activities within a wider framework of fashionable, scientific, and economic interests of the time, historian Clare Hickman argues that gardens shifted from predominately static places of enjoyment to key gathering places for improvement, knowledge sharing, and scientific exploration.

The Doctor's Garden: Medicine, Science, and Horticulture in Britain

History

Hickman, Clare

Europe

Yale University Press

Therapeutic landscapes uniquely brings together historical and contemporary debates on the use of the garden as a therapeutic space. By focusing on the history of hospital gardens in England, Hickman adds a new dimension to current concerns regarding the therapeutic environment. She 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? Hickman uses garden history methodologies to trace the history of these gardens from the grottos, Chinese galleries and summer houses of elite nineteenth-century lunatic asylums, through Florence Nightingale's championing of Victorian pavilion hospital design with courtyard gardens, and the open-air institutions of the Edwardian period with their revolving chalets. She concludes with a discussion of twenty-first century hospital gardens being created by designers such as Dan Pearson, and assesses the current interest in such spaces. Therapeutic landscapes follows the changes in ideas, designs and medical beliefs over the last two centuries and relates these to wider concerns about the growth of civilization, urbanisation and our relationship with the natural world. This book will be essential reading for those interested in the histories of place, space and material culture, and in particular medical historians, garden historians and historical geographers, and it will also appeal to those currently working in the field of therapeutic garden design and medical policy.

Therapeutic landscapes: A history of English hospital gardens since 1800

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Gardening & Landscape Design

Manchester University Press

A balanced exploration of the beliefs, history, and customs of all the major world religions, as well as many less well-known faiths, past and present, utilizes inspiring photographs and engaging illustrations, as well as informative maps and a time chart, to help promote a better understanding of what people of different faiths believe, where and how people worship, the impact of religion on society, and rites of passage.

Religiones Del Mundo/World Religion: Con Links De Internet/With internet links (Spanish Edition)

Children's Books

Rogers, Kirsteen

Religions

Usborne Pub Ltd

The Usborne Internet-Linked Encyclopedia of World Religions

Now available in paperback for the first time, this is an essential reference tool for anyone wanting to learn about this most important subject. A balanced exploration of the beliefs, history and customs of all the major world religions, as well as many lesser-known faiths. Beautiful photographs and engaging illustrations complement the informative thought-provoking text. With fully-updated internet links.

Usborne

Introduces the characteristics that religions have in common, presents the history, beliefs, and practices of the major world faiths and of the peoples of earlier civilizations, and suggests related Web sites.

MEREDITH, SUSAN

Introduces the characteristics that religions have in common and presents the history, beliefs, and practices of the major world faiths and of the peoples of earlier civilizations.

The Usborne Encyclopedia of World Religions: Internet-Linked (World Cultures)

The Usborne Encyclopedia of World Religions: Internet-linked (World Cultures)

This is an essential reference tool for anyone wanting to learn about faiths from around the world. This is a balanced exploration of the beliefs, history and customs of all the major world religions, as well as many lesser-known faiths. Beautiful photographs and engaging illustrations complement the informative thought-provoking text. This title is presented with fully-updated internet links.

Encyclopedia of World Religions

EDC Pub.]

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The Doctor's Garden: Medicine, Science, and Horticulture in Britain

Therapeutic landscapes: A history of English hospital gardens since 1800

Religiones Del Mundo/World Religion: Con Links De Internet/With internet links (Spanish Edition)

The Usborne Internet-Linked Encyclopedia of World Religions

The Usborne Internet-Linked Encyclopedia of World Religions

The Usborne Encyclopedia of World Religions: Internet-Linked (World Cultures)

The Usborne Encyclopedia of World Religions: Internet-linked (World Cultures)

Encyclopedia of World Religions