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Health Humanities

Palgrave Macmillan
  • Paul Crawford is the world's first Professor of Health Humanities and directs Nottingham Health Humanities and the International Health Humanities Network

  • This is the first manifesto for Health Humanities worldwide

  • Part of Palgrave Macmillan's Campaign for the Humanities

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
  2. Health Humanities

    • Paul Crawford, Brian Brown, Charley Baker, Victoria Tischler, Brian Abrams
    Pages 1-19
  3. Anthropology and the Study of Culture

    • Paul Crawford, Brian Brown, Charley Baker, Victoria Tischler, Brian Abrams
    Pages 20-37
  4. Applied Literature

    • Paul Crawford, Brian Brown, Charley Baker, Victoria Tischler, Brian Abrams
    Pages 38-59
  5. Narrative and Applied Linguistics

    • Paul Crawford, Brian Brown, Charley Baker, Victoria Tischler, Brian Abrams
    Pages 60-81
  6. Performing Arts and the Aesthetics of Health

    • Paul Crawford, Brian Brown, Charley Baker, Victoria Tischler, Brian Abrams
    Pages 82-105
  7. Visual Art and Transformation

    • Paul Crawford, Brian Brown, Charley Baker, Victoria Tischler, Brian Abrams
    Pages 106-119
  8. Practice Based Evidence: Delivering Humanities into Healthcare

    • Paul Crawford, Brian Brown, Charley Baker, Victoria Tischler, Brian Abrams
    Pages 120-136
  9. Creative Practice as Mutual Recovery

    • Paul Crawford, Brian Brown, Charley Baker, Victoria Tischler, Brian Abrams
    Pages 137-152
  10. Concluding Remarks

    • Paul Crawford, Brian Brown, Charley Baker, Victoria Tischler, Brian Abrams
    Pages 153-156
  11. Back Matter

    Pages 157-194

About this book

This is the first manifesto for Health Humanities worldwide. It sets out the context for this emergent and innovative field which extends beyond Medical Humanities to advance the inclusion and impact of the arts and humanities in healthcare, health and well-being.

Reviews

“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) 


"The broad-ranging expertise of the authors contributing to this volume ensures that many different literatures are brought to bear on furthering the interest of the humanities and arts across health care education. In all, this is an important volume." Rick Iedema, University of Tasmania, Australia

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Nottingham, UK

    Paul Crawford, Charley Baker

  • De Montfort University, UK

    Brian Brown

  • University of the Arts, London, UK

    Victoria Tischler

  • London College of Fashion, UK

    Victoria Tischler

  • Montclair State University, USA

    Brian Abrams

About the authors

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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eBook USD 19.99
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  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 27.99
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Hardcover Book USD 129.99
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  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

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