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
IntroductionHealthPaul CrawfordPART 1 REFLECTIONS AND CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES1. The Health Humanities, Genealogies of Health Care, and the Consolation of Understanding: Towards a Critique of "Recovery" in Mental Health Brian Brown2. On Applying the Arts and Humanities in Austere TimesAndrea Charise 3. Creative Practices in Challenging PlacesEmma Joyes and Charley Baker4. Visionary Medicine: Race, Health, Power, and SpeculationSayantani DasGupta 5. Digital Life and Health HumanitiesOlivia Banner6. The Palimpsest: Black and Ethnic Minority Perspectives in Health HumanitiesNehal El-Hadi7. Representations of Medical and Health Delivery Paradigms Phillip Barrish8. Post-Conflict Reconciliation and the Health Humanities: The Warrior Chorus ProgramPeter Meineck9. Comics and Graphic Medicine as a Third Space for the Health HumanitiesSusan M. Squier10. Medicine within Health HumanitiesGail Allsopp11. A Health Humanities SublimeBradley Lewis12. Visualizing within Health-Care PracticeColin Macduff13. The Health Humanities and the Creative DisciplinesVictoria Tischler14. Co-Design as a Democratizing Force Alastair Macdonald15. Indigenous Health HumanitiesAllison Crawford, Lisa Boivin and Lisa Richardson 16. Accessibility and Advocacy in Health Humanities Susan Levy17. The Role of the Imagination in the Practices of the Health Humanities Marina Tsaplina and Raymond Barfield18. Inventing Edward Jenner: Historicizing Anti-VaccinationTravis Chi Wing Lau19. Selling the De-Pharmaceuticalization of Insomnia: Semiotics, Drug Advertising, and the Social Life of BelsomraLorenzo Servitje20. The Problem With "Burnout": Neoliberalisation, Biomedicine, and Other Soul MatesShane Neilson21. Medical Poetics: Representing Global Health Humanities and the Case of Lan A. Li22. Creative Arts Adult Community LearningLydia Lewis 23. What Zombies Can Tell Us About Contemporary Health CareSteven Schlozman24. Finding the Subject in the Objectified: Problematizing the Dependence on Metrics for Patient Care in the United StatesBrenda Hall and Paul Kadetz 25. Establishing, Promoting, and Growing the Health Humanities in Japan: A Review and a Vision for the FutureJeffrey Huffman and Mami Inoue26. Australia and New Zealand: A Circuitous Path to Health Humanities Olaf Werder and Kate Holland27. Imaginations of Health Humanities in African Contexts: The Development of Existing Critical Consciousness and PerspectivesIkem IfeobuPART 2 APPLICATIONS28. Intervention TheaterRick Iedema 29. Gallery and Museum VisitingJavier Saavedra 30. Poetry and Male Eating DisordersHeike Bartel and Charley Baker31. PhotographySusan Hogan 32. Fashion and TextilesRebecka Fleetwood-Smith33. ClassicsPeter Meineck34. History Anna Greenwood35. Life-WritingFrances Cadd36. ReadingPhilip Davis and Josie Billington37. DancingSara Houston 38. MasksPeter Meineck39. PuppetryMarina Tsaplina and Cariad Astles 40. DrawingCurie Scott 41. PapermakingDrew Luan Matott and Gretchen M. Miller42. Making MusicRosie Perkins, Daisy Fancourt and Aaron Williamon43. Shared Music Listening Claire Garabedian44. Clay ModelingElaine Argyle 45. ArchitectureSantiago Quesada-Garcia and Pablo Valero-Flores46. Digital Storytelling Carla Rice 47. Heavy Metal MusicCharley Baker and Alex Bishop48. Graphic Medicine MK Czwerwiec and Brian Callender49. Horticultural ArtsJonathan Coope50. Choirs and SingingStephen Clift 51. Ancient TextsChristina Lee52. PhilosophyHavi Carel53. CapoeiraMel Jordan, Edward J. Wright and Aimie Purser54. Kundalina YogaElvira Perez and Emily Haslam-Jones55. Musical Composition and Vocal ExpressionBrian Abrams 56. StorytellingAlan Bleakley, Mike Wilson and Jon Allard57. Applied TheatreGretchen Case and Sydney Cheek-O'Donnell 58. Visual ArtsVictoria Tischler59. KnittingBetsan Corkhill60. Therapeutic FilmmakingJ. Lauren Johnson61. Cooking Danny George and Tomi D. Dreibelbis 62. Aesthetics of SpaceHilary Moss63. LawLydia Bracken64. QuiltingJacqueline M. Atkinson65. Sensory Design and Smart TextilesJenny Tillotson
