Bates Victoria
Department of History, Bristol University, Bristol, UK.
Med Humanit. 2019 Mar;45(1):10-20. doi: 10.1136/medhum-2017-011347. Epub 2018 May 2.
This article explores the role of senses in the construction and experience of place, focusing on patients' experiences of hospital care. It compares two cancer narratives for their insights into the heterogeneous ways that hospital environments are made into therapeutic landscapes, arguing that they are a product of dynamic processes rather than something that is simply built. The article draws on a relational model of space and place, alongside literary analysis, to explore the making of un/healthy environments in embodied, affective and sensory terms. It indicates that sensory experiences in hospitals are made (un)therapeutic in relation to illness and recovery, as well as a range of social and human/non-human relations. These conclusions warn against making broad claims about 'good' or 'bad' hospital sensescapes, or against treating the hospital as a homogeneous space. They also offer new opportunities for medical geography and the medical humanities, by showing how illness and recovery are part of the relational making of space and place.
本文探讨了感官在场所构建和体验中的作用，重点关注患者的医院护理体验。它比较了两篇癌症叙事文章，以洞察医院环境被塑造成治疗性景观的多种方式，并认为它们是动态过程的产物，而非简单建造而成的。本文借鉴空间和场所的关系模型，结合文学分析，从身体、情感和感官层面探讨健康/不健康环境的形成。研究表明，医院中的感官体验因疾病与康复以及一系列社会和人类/非人类关系而具有（非）治疗性。这些结论警示人们不要对“好”或“坏”的医院感官环境一概而论，也不要将医院视为同质化空间。它们还为医学地理学和医学人文学科提供了新机遇，展示了疾病与康复如何成为空间和场所关系构建的一部分。
