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Synopsis:
The relationship between health and the built environment is as old as the first books on architecture, and various religions have correlated physical and spiritual health in their buildings. Examining an Anglican church in Walkerville, Ontario (now part of Windsor, Ontario), Cameron Macdonell discusses a patron in need of miraculous healing and an architect whose cultural beliefs about modernity, illness, and the supernatural shaped a narrative path for the patron’s regeneration.

Cameron Macdonell is an assistant professor with the School of Interior Design at Toronto Metropolitan University. His first book, Ghost Storeys, is about the Walkerville Anglican church, and his current book project, Haunted Houses, is about the ghost as a rhetorical figure in architecture since the seventeenth century.