ABSTRACT
This chapter shows how sensory deprivation was implicated at both Mid Staffordshire and Rotherham. At Rotherham, the background of economic and social deprivation within the town and surrounding areas also impacts on the natural environment, access to it and the quality of those encounters. Traditional societies were intimately linked with the natural environment and nature's cues which often informed communal religious practice. The sub theme of sensuality and brutality outlines how physical touch at Mid Staffordshire was brutal whilst at Rotherham extreme violence accompanied sexual exploitation. Patients at Mid Staffordshire may have experienced bewilderment through the use of medications used to control pain such as morphine and dementia patients in particular in the hospital environment are at risk of being prescribed and administered with sedative medications. Bewilderment ultimately results in dislocation from place but also self and is mirrored by that felt by citizens in modern day society.
