Health, Healing and Recovery: Therapeutic Landscapes and the Everyday Lives of Breast Cancer Survivors  

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English, Jennifer ; Wilson, Kathi ; Keller-Olaman, Sue

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Social Science & Medicine (www.elsevier.com/locate/sosscimed) vol. 67 no. 1 (Jul. 2008), page 68-78.
Topik: Therapeutic Landscapes; Breast Cancer; Healing; Emotional Geographies; Canada

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Perpustakaan Pusat (Semanggi) Nomor Panggil: SS53.21 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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Drawing on the theory of therapeutic landscapes, this paper examines the importance of place for shaping health and healing among breast cancer survivors. Semi-structured in-depth interviews were conducted with 14 women in the Greater Toronto Area at various stages of breast cancer recovery to examine where and how they access and create landscapes of healing. The interviews revealed the importance of everyday and extraordinary therapeutic landscapes that are created in bodies and homes, as well as the broader community and nature. Those landscapes with which women interact on an everyday basis appear to be most important for physical and psychological healing. In addition, the research suggests a strong interplay between emotions and place such that emotional geographies, which appear to be embedded within places of healing, play an important role in shaping and maintaining therapeutic landscapes. Further reserach is needed to understand the place of emotions in creating therapeutic landscapes, particularly for those populations most in need of healing.

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