Everyday health histories and the making of place: the case of an English coastal town

Andrews, Gavin J.; Kearns, Robin

doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2004.11.004

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“…Other research identified historical associations between healing and mineral waters within hot springs and wider spa cultures (Geores, 1998;Foley et al, 2011).Ongoing connections between the blue space idea and contemporary spa and wellness research sustain commodifiable links to different forms of water (Smith and Puczkó, 2009). Specific blue space settings for therapeutic encounters were also identified; lakes in Canada (Wilson 2003;Williams, 2007), river banks in Germany Kistemann, 2011, 2013) and different coasts around the world (Andrews and Kearns, 2005;Collins and Kearns, 2007;Kearns and Collins, 2012).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Other health geographers considered relationships between water and health in historic coastal settings (Foley, 2010). Here the reputation of healing waters, evident in historic seaside resorts, demonstrated how blue space therapeutic assemblages developed through a mix of social, economic, entrepreneurial and affective routes (Andrews and Kearns, 2005;Foley, 2010) Theoretically, there has been a 'relational turn' within health geographies research (Parr, 2004;Conradson, 2005a;Cummins et al, 2007;Duff, 2010;Andrews et al, 2014). Through that research, the sometimes complex theoretical discourses associated with ANT (actor-network theory), more-than-representational theories and mobilities thinking are slowly acquiring a healthy blue tinge (Lorimer, 2005;Foley, 2011;Gatrell, 2013;Andrews et al, 2014;Kearns, 2014).…”

Section: Writing Healthy Blue Spacementioning

confidence: 99%

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Blue space geographies: Enabling health in place

2015

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a b s t r a c tDrawing from research on therapeutic landscapes and relationships between environment, health and wellbeing, we propose the idea of 'healthy blue space' as an important new development Complementing research on healthy green space, blue space is defined as; 'health-enabling places and spaces, where water is at the centre of a range of environments with identifiable potential for the promotion of human wellbeing'. Using theoretical ideas from emotional and relational geographies and critical understandings of salutogenesis, the value of blue space to health and wellbeing is recognised and evaluated. Six individual papers from five different countries consider how health can be enabled in mixed blue space settings. Four sub-themes; embodiment, inter-subjectivity, activity and meaning, document multiple experiences within a range of healthy blue spaces. Finally, we suggest a considerable research agenda -theoretical, methodological and applied -for future work within different forms of blue space. All are suggested as having public health policy relevance in social and public space.

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Section: Writing Healthy Blue Spacementioning

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Blue space geographies: Enabling health in place

2015

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“…Many of these curative narratives have a deep provenance and provide a link to a wider notion of health histories in place, even when applied to 'small places' (Andrews and Kearns, 2005;Cummins et al, 2007). In addition, one can glimpse in the material places of the therapeutic assemblage examples of representational objects, via more formal church elements such as altars, crosses and even small oratories on what were previously relatively natural and organic sites as at Faughart and St. Kieran's.…”

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Performing health in place: The holy well as a therapeutic assemblage

Foley

2011

Health & Place

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a b s t r a c tThis paper examines the holy well as a representative therapeutic landscape with a particular focus on linking a traditional setting with contemporary theory associated with the 'performative turn'. This is developed within the paper to suggest a new theoretical model of the 'therapeutic assemblage' containing material, metaphoric and inhabited dimensions. Drawing empirical evidence from Irish holy wells, complex holistic performances of health are identified within such settings. Deeper associations with more-than-representational theory suggest new directions in the study of therapeutic landscapes to uncover the importance of cultural practice and lay narratives of healing in the creation of healthy place.

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“…Therapeutic landscapes are broadly described as places that have achieved lasting reputations for providing physical, mental and spiritual healing and typically include settings such as spa towns, pilgrimage sites and wilderness as well as smaller scale baths and retreat settings (Gesler 2003). Andrews and Kearns' (2005) layered examination of health histories in place in their study of Teignmouth in the UK, though focused on more formal services, provides a useful template. Providing a potentially valuable parallel link between developments in cultural geography and a wider medical humanities, research by Foley (2011) considers a 'deep mapping' of place and the associated practices and inhabitations that form the basis of embedded healing assemblages (Bailey and Biggs 2012).…”

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Indigenous Narratives of Health: (Re)Placing Folk-Medicine within Irish Health Histories

Foley

2014

J Med Humanit

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With the increased acceptance of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) within society, new research reflects deeper folk health histories beyond formal medical spaces. The contested relationships between formal and informal medicine have deep provenance and as scientific medicine began to professionalise in the 19th century, lay health knowledges were simultaneously absorbed and disempowered (Porter 1997). In particular, the 'medical gaze' and the responses of informal medicine to this gaze were framed around themes of power, regulation, authenticity and narrative reputation. These responses were emplaced and mobile; enacted within multiple settings by multiple agents and structures over time. The work is drawn from secondary material from Ireland, which identify more indigenous narratives of health and act as potential sources for medical humanities. While assumptions have been made as to the place of folk-medicine being essentially rural, evidence will be presented which shows a more complex network of health beliefs and practices. The narratives of informal practice and folk-medicine drawn from evidence from Ireland point to more fluid and hybrid relations with formal medicine and suggest that the complementary nature of the two models reflected wider cultural debates and models of belief (Del Casino Jnr., Health & Place 10:59-73, 2004).

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Everyday health histories and the making of place: the case of an English coastal town

Cited by 50 publications

References 48 publications

Blue space geographies: Enabling health in place

Blue space geographies: Enabling health in place

Performing health in place: The holy well as a therapeutic assemblage

Indigenous Narratives of Health: (Re)Placing Folk-Medicine within Irish Health Histories

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