Writing and health care : creative and critical approaches / Janelle Adsit.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Adsit, Janelle, author.

Contributor:

Bloomsbury (Firm), publisher.

Series:

Approaches to writing.

Approaches to writing

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Well-being.

Creative ability.

Creative ability in medicine.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (296 pages).

Edition:

1st edition.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.

Summary:

How can arts-based approaches benefit patients and professionals within the health care system? Can the skills creative writers use to craft their work be applied more broadly to enhance the wellbeing of those in need of medical care? This book offers a practical introduction to how these ideas can be employed within health care settings as treatments, to foster more empathetic and humane interactions between patients and practitioners, and to help understand the personal narratives of others. Combining aesthetic theory with practice, Writing and Health Care reflects on the role of creative expression in bettering the life and well-being of oneself and others. Touching on areas as diverse as health humanities, narrative medicine, creative therapies and transformative language arts, it introduces a range of genres including graphic medicine, illness narratives, "sick lit" and more. Foregrounding health justice and thinking with intersectional communities at the forefront, this book enables readers to write in ways that resist limited thinking, contribute to the transformation of health systems and processes, and generate works that promote forms of expression with therapeutic effects for patients and practitioners alike.

Contents:

Acknowledgments

A Note for Instructors: The Place of Health Care in the Creative Writing Curriculum

How to Use This Book

Introduction

Chapter 1 - Relationships Between Writing and Health

Chapter 2 - Narrative Medicine and Other Health-Related Arts

Chapter 3 - Praxis: Key Concepts & Practices

Chapter 4 - Bodies of Writing

and Writing the Body

Chapter 5 - Writing for Social Change

Chapter 6 - Considerations and Craft

Chapter 7 - Writing Groups

Chapter 8 - Pausing Here

Appendices - Additional Resources

Selected Bibliography and Reading List

Employment Opportunities at the Intersection of Arts and Health Care

Organizations to Know

Sample Syllabi

Sample Handouts

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

978-1-3504-1709-0

1-350-41711-4

978-1-3504-1710-6

978-1-3504-1711-3

OCLC:

1500762745