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Healing spaces : the science of place and well-being / Esther M. Sternberg.

By:

Sternberg, Esther M [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010Edition: 1st Harvard University Press pbk. editionDescription: 343 pages ; 21 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0674057481
9780674057487

Subject(s):

Architectural design -- Health aspects

DDC classification:

725.51 22

LOC classification:

RA770 .S74 2010

Contents:

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.

Summary: 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.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	North Campus North Campus Main Collection	725.51 STE (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Long Overdue (Lost) Issued	24/09/2022	A502888B

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Originally published: 2009.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-324) and index.

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.

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