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Review: Healing Spaces by Esther Sternberg

By Linda Geddes

6 May 2009

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Can physical places enhance or damage our health?

(Image: Belknap Press)

HOW physical places can enhance or damage our health may sound unscientific, but constructs a convincing argument in this book.

The journey begins with a in which hospital patients were found to recover more quickly if their windows overlooked a grove of trees rather than a brick wall. From there, we learn how sunlight, meditation, music and exercise can affect the balance of hormones and neurotransmitters in the central nervous system – and how these in turn can impact on the…

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