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Lourdes: healing in a place of pilgrimage
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The authors examines the factors which have contributed to Lourdes' attraction for millions as a place of healing: the religious pilgrimage tradition, Lours' central role in political, economic, social, and cultural changes in France; belief in miraculous cures reported at Lourde; and the pilgrim experience.About:
This article is published in Health & Place.The article was published on 1996-06-01. It has received 255 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Pilgrimage & Pilgrim.read more
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Approaches to sampling and case selection in qualitative research: examples in the geography of health.
TL;DR: The value of a framework suggested by Miles and Huberman is explored, to evaluate the sampling strategies employed in three examples of research by the authors, and how far the criteria Miles andHuberman suggest seem helpful for planning 'sample' selection in qualitative research.
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Health effects of viewing landscapes - Landscape types in environmental psychology
TL;DR: Three main kinds of health effects have been identified in the study; short-term recovery from stress or mental fatigue, faster physical recovery from illness and long-term overall improvement on people’s health and well-being.
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"Cultivating health": therapeutic landscapes and older people in northern England.
TL;DR: It is maintained that communal gardening sites offer one practical way in which it may be possible to develop a 'therapeutic landscape', by enhancing the quality of life and emotional well being of older people.
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Landscape, care and the relational self: therapeutic encounters in rural England.
TL;DR: These ideas are explored with reference to the experiences of guests at a respite care centre in Dorset, which places a strong emphasis on facilitating guests' engagement with the wider natural environment in which it is set.
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An event of geographical ethics in spaces of affect
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that this emerging interest in questions of the non-representational actually extends the range and repertoire of empirical contexts and conceptual vehicles within and with which such an engagement can take place.
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Therapeutic landscapes: medical issues in light of the new cultural geography.
TL;DR: The intention of this broad overview is to bring some particularly useful concepts developed in cultural geography to the attention of social scientists interested in matters of health and to stimulate research along new lines.
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Image and pilgrimage in Christian culture
TL;DR: The Image and Pilgrimage in Christian Culture as discussed by the authors is a classic work examining the theological conditions giving rise to pilgrimage and the folk traditions enabling worshippers to absorb the meaning of the event; and the images and symbols embodying the experience of pilgrimage and transmitting its visions in varying ways.
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Miasma: Pollution and Purification in Early Greek Religion
TL;DR: Miasma as discussed by the authors is the first work in English to treat this theme in detail, focusing on the pollution of bloodshed in ancient Greek literature: Orestes is driven mad; Oedipus brings plague upon all Thebes; and political orators represent their opponents as polluting demons.
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Place and Health: Towards a Reformed Medical Geography∗
TL;DR: This reformed medical geography will analyze issues such as the consequences of illness and health service provision for both personal well-being and the collective experience of place by communities.