Can I read Healing Spaces : The Science of Place and Well-Being on EtoBox?

Healing Spaces : The Science of Place and Well-Being by Esther M. Sternberg MD is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Healing Spaces : The Science of Place and Well-Being about?

“Esther Sternberg is a rare writer—a physician who healed herself…With her scientific expertise and crystal clear prose, she illuminates how intimately the brain and the immune system talk to each other, and how we can use place and space, sunlight and music, to reboot our brains and move from illness to health.”—Gail Sheehy, author of PassagesDoes the world make you sick? If the distractions and distortions around you, the jarring colors and sounds, could shake up the healing chemistry of your mind, might your surroundings also have the power to heal you? This is the question Esther Sternberg explores in Healing Spaces, a look at the marvelously rich nexus of mind and body, perception and place.Sternberg immerses us in the discoveries that have revealed a complicated working relationship between the senses, the emotions, and the immune system. First among these is the story of the researcher who, in the 1980s, found that hospital patients with a view of nature healed faster than those without. How could a pleasant view speed healing? The author pursues this question through a series of places and situations that explore the neurobiology of the senses. The book shows how a Disney t

Who reads Healing Spaces : The Science of Place and Well-Being?

Author

Esther M. Sternberg MD

Publisher

Belknap Press of Harvard University Press

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780674054660

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Psychology, Body Mind & Spirit, Medical

Rating

3.86 / 5 (100 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13