These books are available at Brown Bookstore's textbook section. You are NOT required to buy them but having some of them might be handy, especially the ones we will read in their entirety such as the Gesler and Kearns, Bellamy, and Harris. A copy of each of these books will be on reserve at the Rock (Reserve Desk).
- Gesler, Wilbert M. and Robin A. Kearns; 2002. Culture, Place and Health. London and New York: Routledge.
- Gesler, Wilbert M.; 2003. Healing Places. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield.
- Bellamy, Carla; 2011. The Powerful Ephemeral. Everyday Healing in an Ambiguously Islamic Place. The University of California Press.
- Escobar, Arturo; 2008. Territories of Difference: Place, Movements, Life, Redes. Durham and London: Duke University Press.
- Tuan, Yi-Fu; 1977. Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience. Minneapolis: The University of Minnesota Press.
- Casey, Edward S.; 1993. Getting Back into Place: Toward a Renewed Understanding of the Place-World. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press.
- Csordas, Thomas J.; 2002. Body/meaning/healing. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Harris, Ruth; 2000. Lourdes: Body And Spirit in the Secular Age. Penguin.
- Bradley, Richard; 2000. An Archaeology of Natural Places. London and New York: Routledge.
