Health humanities [electronic resource] /
Crawford, Paul,1963-author.
Brown, Brian,1962-author.
Baker, Charley,1981-author.
Tischler, Victoria,1968-author.
Abrams, Brian,author.
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.
1. Health Humanities -- 2. Anthropology and the Study of Culture -- 3. Applied Literature -- 4. Narrative and Applied Linguistics -- 5. Performing Arts and the Aesthetics of Health -- 6. Visual Art and Transformation -- 7. Practice Based Evidence: Delivering Humanities into Healthcare -- 8. Creative Practice as Mutual Recovery.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Medicine and the humanities.
Medicine