In the beauty of restorative gardens, patients from the Middle Ages to the early twentieth century found a setting in which to heal both physically and mentally. This engaging book examines the history of such gardens and their therapeutic role in six modern medical centers. The authors make a plea to integrate nature into the medical milieu for patients' sense of peace and well-being.

Restorative Gardens: The Healing Landscape

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Kaufman, Richard

Warner Jr., Sam Bass

Gerlach-Spriggs, Ms. Nancy

Alternative Medicine

Yale University Press

Restorative gardens for the sick, which were a vital part of the healing process from the Middle Ages to the early twentieth century, provided ordered and beautiful settings in which patients could begin to heal, both physically and mentally. In this engaging book, a landscape architect, a physician, and a historian examine the history and role of restorative gardens to show why it is important to again integrate nature into the institutionaland largely factorylikesettings of modern health care facilities. In this unique book, Nancy Gerlach-Spriggs, Dr. Richard Enoch Kaufman, and Sam Bass Warner, Jr., unfold their argument by presenting the history of restorative gardens and studies of six American health care centers that cherish the role of their gardens in the therapeutic process. These institutions are examined in detail: community hospitals in Wausau, Wisconsin, and Monterey, California; a full-care mental institution in Philadelphia; a nursing home in Queens; a facility for rehabilitative medicine in New York City; and a hospice in Houston. In their comprehensive review the authors suggest that contemporary scientific understanding clearly recognizes the beneficial physiological effects of garden environments on patients’ well-being. The book ends with a plea to make gardensrather than the shopping mall atria so often seen in newly renovated hospitalsa vital part of the medical milieu.

Gerlach-Spriggs, Nancy

Mental Health

Experiments, magic tricks, and other activities explore the scientific principles of matter and energy.

Matter and Energy, Book 1 (Scientific Magic Series)

Friedhoffer, Robert

Eisenberg, Linda

Children's Books

Franklin Watts

Experiments, magic tricks, and other activities explore the scientific principles of molecules and heat

Molecules and Heat (Scientific Magic Series)

Science & Math

Experiments, magic tricks, and other activities explore the scientific principles of light

Light (Scientific Magic Series, Book 5)

This sixth volume in a six-volume series of books using magic tricks and activities to illustrate scientific principles features experiments with magnetism and electricity.

Magnetism and Electricity (Scientific Magic Series)

Enhanced sound--22 electronic projects for the audiophile

Tab Books

Enhanced Sound: 22 Electronics Projects for the Audiophile

Technology

The Secrets of Brother John Hamman

Kaufman and Greenberg

From simple to advanced, and using household and inexpensive props, Knack Magic Tricks includes tricks using cards, coins, handkerchiefs, and fruit, as well as mental tricks, anytime tricks, standup tricks, and tricks especially for kids (to be performed both for them and by them).

Knack Magic Tricks: A Step-By-Step Guide To Illusions, Sleight Of Hand, And Amazing Feats (Knack: Make It Easy)

Reference

Globe Pequot Press

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