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Writing and Health Care : Creative and Critical Approaches.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Adsit, Janelle, author.
- Series:
- Approaches to writing.
- Approaches to writing
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Well-being.
- Creative ability.
- Creative ability in medicine.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (304 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st edition.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.
- Summary:
- A practical introduction to the fields of arts in health, health humanities, and narrative medicine from the perspective of a creative writer, this book teaches artists, patients, and health practitioners how to exercise the benefits of aesthetic thinking.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- A Note for Instructors: The Place of Health Care in the Creative Writing Curriculum
- How to Use This Book
- Introduction
- Story and Medicine
- Research on Health Benefits of Art
- Getting Started with Writing
- 1 Relationships between Writing and Health
- What Is Health?
- Global Definitions of Health
- Structural Determinants of Health
- Constructs of Health and Their Implications
- Constructs of Illness and Disease
- Representation
- Diverse Epistemologies of Health
- Culture Is Health
- Art for Art's Sake | Art for Life's Sake
- Cultural Appropriation
- Health Justice and Healing Justice
- Addressing Scientific and Medical Racism
- Challenging the Medical Industrial Complex
- Practicing Healing Justice
- 2 Narrative Medicine and Other Health-Related Arts
- Reflective Practice
- Health Humanities/Medical Humanities
- Narrative Medicine
- History of Narrative Medicine
- Skillset for Relational Practice in Medicine
- Narrative Competence
- Uncertainty
- Countering Medical Paternalism
- Care for the Caretakers
- Supporting Health Care Professionals
- Arts in Health
- Creative Arts Therapies/Expressive Arts Therapies
- Bibliotherapy
- Reading as Self-Help in Popular Culture
- Transformative Language Arts and Community-Based Writing
- Social and Emotional Learning
- 3 Key Concepts and Practices
- Narrative Ethics
- Medical Ethics and Bioethics
- Cultural and Narrative Humility
- Linguistic Justice
- Positionality
- Empathy and Intersubjectivity
- Intersubjectivity
- Literature and Empathy
- Empathy Is Not Sufficient for Social Change
- The Risks of Empathy
- The Politics of Emotion: Whose Feelings Are Authorized?
- The Potential Role of Empathy
- Responsiveness
- Trauma-Informed Approaches
- 4 Bodies of Writing-and Writing the Body.
- Illness Narratives and "Sick Lit"
- Nonnarrative Approaches: The Poetics of Pain
- Writing Disability
- Graphic Medicine
- 5 Writing for Social Change
- Warnings against the Political in Creative Writing
- To Delight and to Instruct
- The Unique Political Capacities of the Aesthetic
- Artivism and Creative Writing
- 6 Considerations and Craft
- Stages of a Text
- Building Blocks of Writing
- Where to Go to Find These Building Blocks …
- A Framework for Thinking about Writerly Choices: Risks and Possibilities
- Questions for Your Revision Process
- What Are You Explaining in Your Text?
- What Is Above and Beneath the "Waterline" of Your Piece?
- How Are You Working with Abstractions and Particulars?
- How Are You Making Use of Both Scene and Summary, of Both Action and Narration?
- How Is Your Text Structured? How Does the Sequencing Support the Text's Momentum?
- Who Are Your Audiences?
- Who and What Does Your Text Represent?
- Continuing Your Work
- 7 Writing Groups
- Differences between Therapeutic Spaces and the Creative Writing Classroom
- Example of a Community Writing Group
- Establishing a Context and Culture
- Example Poems and Prompts for a Community Writing Group
- A Narrative Medicine Workshop in Academic Creative Writing
- Reading as Writer: Five Orientations
- Connective Reading-Reading to Hold Space for What Is Being Shared
- Contextualizing Reading-Reading to Think about How a Text Might Be Located within the Literary Landscape
- Craft-Based Reading-Reading to Construct How the Text Works
- Creative Reading-Reading to "Create with" an Existing Text
- Critical Reading-Reading to Help the Author See the Piece's Assumptions
- 8 Pausing Here
- Bibliography
- Appendices-Additional Resources
- Employment Opportunities at the Intersection of Arts and Health Care.
- Professional Organizations at the Intersection of Arts and Health Care
- Sample Handout: Pre-Workshop Questionnaire
- Sample Handout: The Art of Workshop
- Sample Exercise: Preparing for Workshop: Notecard Activity
- Sample Workshop Community Agreements
- Sample Handout: Discussion Guide for Fiction / Short Story Workshop
- Sample Handout: Alternative Notetaking Guide for a Workshop Conversation
- Sample Handout: Approaches to Creativity and Corresponding Prompts
- Sample Handout: Finding Details to Inspire and Infuse in Your Stories
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781350417090
- 1350417092
- 9781350417106
- 1350417106
- 978-1-3504-1709-0
- 1-350-41711-4
- 978-1-3504-1710-6
- 978-1-3504-1711-3
- OCLC:
- 1500762745
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