| Summary: | 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, 2002). English-speaking researchers have thus published extensively in this direction. They ask how the design of a care space can interact with the relational dimension of the caregivers. But also how the use of places could claim to have a therapeutic dimension, or even improve the quality of care and the quality of life of the sick people living in these places (Gesler et al., 2004). More: here
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