Full Description
The health humanities is a rapidly rising field, advancing an inclusive, democratizing, activist, applied, critical, and culturally diverse approach to delivering health and well-being through the arts and humanities. It has generated new kinds of interdisciplinary research, knowledge, and communities of practice globally. It has also acted to bring greater coherence and political force to contributions across a range of related disciplines and traditions.
In this volume, a formidable set of authors explore the history, current state, and future of the health humanities, in particular how its vision of the arts and humanities:
Promotes creative public health.
Opens new routes to health and well-being.
Informs and drives better health care.
Interrogates relationships between ill health and social equality.
Develops humanist theory in relation to health and social care practice.
Foregrounds cultural difference as a resource for positive change in society.
Tests the humanity of an increasingly globalized health-care system.
Looks to overcome structural and process obstacles to cross-disciplinary ventures.
Champions co-construction, co-design, and mutuality in solving health and well-being challenges.
Showcases less familiar, prominent, or celebrated creative practices.
Includes multiple perspectives on the value and health benefits of the arts and humanities not limited to or dominated by medicine.
Divided into two main sections, the Companion looks at "Reflections and Critical Perspectives," offering current thinking and definitions within health humanities, and "Applications," comprising a wide selection of applied arts and humanities practices from comedy, writing, and dancing to yoga, cooking, and horticultural display.
Contents
Introduction: Global Health Humanities and the Rise of Creative Public Health Paul Crawford PART1 REFLECTIONS AND CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES 1. The Health Humanities, Genealogies of Health Care, and the Consolation of Understanding:Towards a Critique of "Recovery" in Mental Health Brian Brown 2. On Applying the Arts and Humanities in Austere Times Andrea Charise3. Creative Practices in Challenging Places Emma Joyes and Charley Baker 4. Visionary Medicine: Race, Health, Power, and Speculation Sayantani DasGupta5. Digital Life and Health Humanities Olivia Banner 6. The Palimpsest: Black and Ethnic Minority Perspectives in Health Humanities Nehal El-Hadi 7. Representations of Medical and Health Delivery Paradigms Phillip Barrish 8. Post-Conflict Reconciliation and the Health Humanities: The Warrior Chorus Program Peter Meineck 9. Comics and Graphic Medicine as a Third Space for the Health Humanities Susan M. Squier 10. Medicine within Health Humanities Gail Allsopp 11. A Health Humanities Sublime Bradley Lewis 12. Visualizing within Health-Care Practice Colin Macduff 13. The Health Humanities and the Creative Disciplines Victoria Tischler 14. Co-Design as a Democratizing Force Alastair Macdonald 15. Indigenous Health Humanities Allison Crawford, Lisa Boivin and Lisa Richardson 16. Accessibility and Advocacy in Health Humanities Susan
