
Healing Waters
DOI link for Healing Waters
Healing Waters book
Therapeutic Landscapes in Historic and Contemporary Ireland
Healing Waters
DOI link for Healing Waters
Healing Waters book
Therapeutic Landscapes in Historic and Contemporary Ireland
ByRonan Foley
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2010
eBook Published 15 April 2016
Pub. location London
Imprint Routledge
Pages 230 pages
eBook ISBN 9781315586304
SubjectsGeography, Health and Social Care, Humanities, Social Sciences
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Foley, R. (2010). Healing Waters. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315586304
Bringing together a range of different place-studies, including holy wells, spa towns, Turkish baths and sweat-houses, sea-bathing and the modern spa, this book investigates associations between water, health, place and culture in Ireland. It is informed by a humanistic approach, showing how health and place are socially and culturally constructed and how health is embodied, experienced and enacted in place. In addition, the work argues that an understanding of health and place must also consider the historical, societal and cultural orthodoxies that shape and produce those places.