The Routledge companion to health humanities. / edited by Paul Crawford, Brian Brown and Andrea Charise.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Crawford, Paul, 1963- editor.

Brown, B. J. (Brian J.), editor.

Charise, Andrea, editor.

Series:

Routledge companions to literature series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medicine and the humanities.

Public health.

Health Promotion.

Medical Subjects:

Health Promotion.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (493 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.

Summary:

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:

Cover

Half Title

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Table of Contents

List of boxes, figures, and table

Acknowledgements

List of contributors

Introduction: global health humanities and the rise of creative public health

Introduction

References

PART 1: 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

A genealogy of recovery

Genealogies of ideas and the consolation of understanding

2. On applying the arts and humanities in austere times

Applying empathy

"H is for hospital": narrative training for nursing empathy

"We heard health care": health humanities' austere activism

Conclusion

3. Creative practices in challenging places

Forensic mental health in the United Kingdom

Creative practice in challenging places: an applied example

4. Visionary medicine: race, health, power, and speculation

Medicine's role in constructing "race"

From medical experimentation to medical imperialism

Who gets to imagine themselves into the future?

Visionary medicine

5. Digital life and health humanities

6. The palimpsest: Black and ethnic minority perspectives in health humanities

The acknowledgement of pasts

The production of presence

The imagining of futures

7. Representations of medical and health delivery paradigms

8. Post-conflict resolution and the health humanities: the Warrior Chorus program

Background

New directions

Opportunities and challenges

Recruitment.

References

9. Comics and graphic medicine as a third space for the health humanities

Notes

10. Medicine within health humanities

Creative practice with patients

Children

Adults

In nursing homes

In death

In teaching

With our teams and for ourselves

11. A health humanities sublime

Contemporary sublime

Lars von Trier's Melancholia

The sublime as health humanities resource

12. Visualizing within health-care practice

Individual and collective visualizing

Visualizing the invisible

VisionOn

Other participatory approaches

Healthcare Associated Infection Visualisation and Ideation Research Network (HAIVAIRN)

13. Health humanities and the creative disciplines

Creative disciplines and health-care systems and research: uneasy bedfellows

Creativity and mental health: health care supporting artistic expression

New directions for co-creativity

14. Co-design as a democratizing force

Design in the health-care setting

A democratic space

Building to think

Designerly and design-like

Co-design as anti-structure

15. Indigenous health humanities

Indigenous history(ies) of medicine

Narrative medicine, postcolonial narrative medicine, and Indigenous narrative medicine

16. Accessibility and advocacy in health humanities

Advocacy and accessing patients' voices

Social prescribing: advocating for access to the arts

Creativity in policy and practice

17. The role of the imagination in the practices of the health humanities

Storytelling between and beyond words.

Two stories of imagination in suffering, care, and healing

Imagination is a practice

The strangeness of disembodied medicine

Care as a relational embodied process

18. Inventing Edward Jenner: historicizing anti-vaccination

Jenner's (re)invention

Jenner's pastoral security

Revealing Jenner's insecurity

19. Selling the de-pharmaceuticalization of insomnia: semiotics, drug advertising, and the social life of Belsomra

DTCA: semiotics, economics, and the de-pharmaceuticalization of sleeplessness

Beslomra's delicate balancing act

The afterlife of cats and dogs

20. The problem with "burnout": neoliberalization, biomedicine, and other soul mates

Survey says: neoliberal rhetoric and the Canadian Medical Association National Physician Health Survey

Dissecting biomedicine's "study techniques": burnout as destiny

The duet of Jill and Chen: emergency departments are ground zero for neoliberal health policy

"The stronger mind": resiliency and individual capacity

Full circle: in lieu of a "fix for a generation"

21. Medical poetics: representing global health humanities and the case of 心

Global pitfalls

心on the mind

Tree-brain-branches

Digital diaries

Endings and beginnings

22. Creative arts adult community learning

ACL in the creative arts compared with other kinds of learning

The processes through which creative arts ACL produces mental health and well-being benefits

Absorption, relaxation, and "being present"

Self-expression, communication, and understanding of self and others

Enduring interest, enjoyment, and social connection and support.

Identity work, social contribution and reciprocity

23. What zombies can tell us about contemporary health care

Night of the living dead

Dawn of the dead

So where does all this lead us?

24. Finding the subject in the objectified: problematizing the dependence on metrics for patient care in the United States

Methods

Results

Discussion

25. Establishing, promoting, and growing the health humanities in Japan: a review and a vision for the future

The current state of health humanities in Japan

A vision for the future of health humanities in Japan

The way forward

26. Australia and New Zealand: a circuitous path to health humanities

Contextual barriers

Pathways for arts and humanities in health

Arts and humanities in health: selected activities

Resources

27. Imaginations of health humanities in African contexts: the development of existing critical consciousness and perspectives

Introduction: Africa: the continent, its nations, and diverse richness

Suitability of health humanities: brief review of global engagement and growth

Philosophical imaginations of HHA: a Freirean perspective

HHA through the lens of Barnett

Development in Africa and the university: a brief case study

PART 2: Applications

28. Intervention theater

engendering discussion about hospital-caused death

Reprise: Hear Me as a resource for making difficult issues discussable

29. Gallery and museum visiting

The social function of galleries and museums: arts and culture as health resources.

Creative practices as "social prescription"

Why does it work? rationale and evidence

30. Poetry and male eating disorders

The "Hungry for Words" poetry project on eating disorders

Outlook

Resource

31. Photography

Photographic research methods

Arts and health: therapeutic photography and photography within art therapy

Brief case example

32. Fashion and textiles

Clothing, the body, and identity

Clothing and associated meanings

The significance of clothing in health and social care settings

Clothing as creative practice

Clothing and textile handling sessions

33. Classics

34. History

History, health, and well-being

35. Life-writing

"Everyday" or "ordinary" practices and processes

Mentalities and attitudes

Subjective perspectives and new connections

36. Reading

Shared reading and mental health: research findings

A brief case history

Implementation and impact

37. Dancing

Note

38. Masks

39. Puppetry

Creating the illusion of life

Transitional objects

Global overview

Future directions: embodiment, presence, attention, imagination

40. Drawing

The value of drawing for health care, health, and well-being

Objective drawing

Subjective drawings

A short case presentation on drawing in health care

Barriers and promoting factors

Examples and methods for engaging the public in drawing

References.

41. Papermaking.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780429469060

0429469063

9780429889639

0429889631

OCLC:

1140684737