The Routledge Companion to Health Humanities by Paul Crawford Paperback Book

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Divided into two main sections, the Companion looks at "Reflections" – offers current thinking and definitions within health humanities, and "Applications" comprises a wide selection of a range of arts and humanities modalities from comedy and writing to dancing, yoga and horticulture.

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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.

Author Biography

Paul Crawford is Professor of Health Humanities in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at the University of Nottingham, UK.Brian Brown is Professor of Health Communication at De Montfort University, UK.Andrea Charise is an Assistant Professor in the departments of English and Interdisciplinary Centre for Health and Society at the University of Toronto Scarborough, Canada.

Review

"The book is a cornucopia of riches: a repository of perspectives and practices which provoke and inspire."Stephen Clift Professor Emeritus, Canterbury Christchurch University, United Kingdom

Details ISBN1032570342 Author Andrea Charise Pages 492 Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd Series Routledge Literature Companions Year 2023 ISBN-13 9781032570341 Format Paperback Publication Date 2023-05-31 Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Edited by Andrea Charise AU Release Date 2023-05-31 NZ Release Date 2023-05-31 UK Release Date 2023-05-31 Alternative 9781138579903 DEWEY 362.1 Audience General Imprint Routledge ISBN-10 1032570342 We've got this

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