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Podcast: Trinity Long Room Hub Podcasts
Episode: Environment… as Medicine? Understanding the Various Ways that Architecture Supports Wellbeing
Description: Recorded April 13, 2023.
A lecture by Dr Rebecca McLaughlan (University of Sydney) as part of the Medical and Health Humanities Seminar Series. McLaughlin's research investigates the relationship of the environment to wellbeing; how do healthcare environments make people feel, and how do can they best support staff in the delivery of patient care? Once we have this research, how can it be successfully translated into practice? While evidence-based design has refocused attention on the relationship between the built environment and wellbeing, it also tends to obscure knowledge from other disciplines, and from history, that would otherwise enrich contemporary understandings of this...