The therapeutic landscapes of two maternity hospitals in Ile-de-France

Abstract

Thanks to the “cultural turn”, medical geography has produced a great deal of work on health, taking the health care places as an entry point (Gesler & Kearns, 2002, Curtis, 2004). The purpose was to give them a broad scope that questioned the place of identity, human experience, body, environment and culture. Thus, places that had a reputation for caring, affecting health, and healing, have been documented by researchers and conceptualized under the term of therapeutic landscapes (Gesler, 20...