Main entry:

Gerlach-Spriggs, Nancy, 1950-

Title & Author:

Restorative gardens : the healing landscape / Nancy Gerlach-Spriggs, Richard Enoch Kaufman, Sam Bass Warner, Jr.

Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, 1998.

Description:

viii, 191 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-184) and index.
The History -- Toward a Theory of the Restorative Garden -- Howard A. Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine: New York, New York -- Queen of Peace Residence: Queens Village, New York -- The Hospice at the Texas Medical Center: Houston, Texas -- Friends Hospital: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania -- Wausau Hospital: Wausau, Wisconsin -- Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula: Monterey, California -- Recovering the Wisdom of the Garden: Coming Home.

Summary:

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 reintegrate nature into the institutional - and largely factorylike - settings 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 the patients' well-being.
The book ends with a plea to make gardens - rather than the shopping mall atria so often seen in newly renovated hospitals - a vital part of the medical milieu.

ISBN:

0300072384
9780300072389
9780300107104
0300107102

Subject:

Health facilities Landscape architecture United States Case studies.
Gardens Therapeutic use United States Case studies.
Health facilities.
Health Facilities
Health Facility Environment
Phytotherapy
Équipements sanitaires Architecture du paysage États-Unis Études de cas.
Jardins Emploi en thérapeutique États-Unis Études de cas.
Équipements sanitaires.
Phytothérapie.
health facilities.
Gardens Therapeutic use
Health facilities Landscape architecture
United States
Landscaping.
Horticulture.

Form/genre:

Case Reports
Writings.
Case studies
Études de cas.

Added entries:

Kaufman, Richard Enoch, 1945-
Warner, Sam Bass, 1928-2023

Healing landscape

Holdings:

Location: Library main 200802
Call No.: NA44.G371.A35 1998
Status: Available