The Concept of Healing in Iran

Document Type : Review

Authors

1 Imam Khomeini International University

2 Imam Khomeini international university. Qazvin, Iran

Abstract

The healing landscape is one of the main subjects of landscape architecture. Studies in the West show the specific approaches of the Western theorists regarding the hospital landscape, healing perspectives and new attitudes about the use of nature and its elements in creation of hospital and therapeutic landscape. But a look at today's therapeutic spaces in Iran suggests a fundamental difference in people's attitudes and public culture towards the hospital space; This cultural and attitude difference Expresses a different landscape from western hospitals, so that, the re-examined concepts in the hospital area of this study indicates the existence of new concepts which are not seen in Western hospitals at all;
For example concepts such as the issues related to the patient companions and visitors in hospitals, which are in accordance with Iranian culture; or concepts such as habitation and wisdom that arise from the Iranian's particular view of the concept of the treatmant. This study was carried out through a desk study on the history of hospitals and medicine in Iran and the West, with local impressions and interviews in the form of a questionnaire in the Imam Khomeini Hospital of Tehran. In this study, the importance and direct relation of healing scenes in hospitals with cultural and native characteristics of each regine and re-reading the differences of the basic concept of healing in Iran and the West has been briefly outlined.

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