Machine generated contents note: -- Acknowledgements1. Health Humanities2. Anthropology and the Study of Culture3. Applied Literature4. Narrative and Applied Linguistics5. Performing Arts and the Aesthetics of Health6. Visual Art and Transformation7. Practice Based Evidence: Delivering Humanities into Health Care8. Creative Practice as Mutual RecoveryConcluding RemarksBibliography.
Summary:
"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 humanities can 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.
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