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"Health Humanities draws upon the multiple and expanding fields of enquiry that link health and social care disciplines with the arts and humanities. It aims to encourage innovation and novel cross-disciplinary explorations of how the arts and humanitiescan inform and transform healthcare, health and wellbeing among researchers, practitioners and the public. It foregrounds a range of scholarship and innovative practice in this field. Through the development of critique and critical theory, it enables readers to question not only current practice in medical and health humanities but also foundational assumptions of healthcare, health and wellbeing. Suitable for students and scholars working in this exciting interdisciplinary field, this book sets out the context for an emergent and innovative field"--Provided by publisher.
List of contents
Acknowledgements 1. Health Humanities 2. Anthropology and the Study of Culture 3. Applied Literature 4. Narrative and Applied Linguistics 5. Performing Arts and the Aesthetics of Health 6. Visual Art and Transformation 7. Practice Based Evidence: Delivering Humanities into Health Care 8. Creative Practice as Mutual Recovery Concluding Remarks Bibliography
About the author
Paul Crawford is Professor of Health Humanities at University of Nottingham, UK.
Brian Brown is Professor of Health Communication at De Montfort University, UK.
Charley Baker is Lecturer in Mental Health at University of Nottingham, UK.
Victoria Tischler is Senior Lecturer in Psychology at University of the Arts London, UK.
Brian Abrams is Associate Professor of Music and Coordinator of Music Therapy at Montclair State University, USA.
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"Health Humanities provides a very valuable survey of the ways in which arts and humanities have historically contributed in the improvement of healthcare practices both in the UK and throughout the world. As a manifesto calling for the expansion of a new discipline, it clearly highlights unexplored areas of interest for future academic studies as well as potential spaces of engagement for healthcare practitioners interested in potential new approaches to health and care." (Mathieu Donner, The British Society for Literature and Science, bsls.ac.uk, July, 2017)
