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
nineteenth-century lunatic asylums, through Florence Nightingale's
championing of the Victorian pavilion hospital design with its
courtyard gardens, and the open-air institutions of the Edwardian
period with their revolving chalets. It concludes with a discussion
of new hospital gardens being created by designers such as Dan
Pearson in the twenty-first century. 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.
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