1st Edition
The Routledge Companion to Health Humanities
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.
Introduction: Global Health Humanities and the Rise of Creative Public Health
Paul Crawford
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
Brian Brown
2. On Applying the Arts and Humanities in Austere Times
Andrea Charise
3. Creative Practices in Challenging Places
Emma Joyes and Charley Baker
4. Visionary Medicine: Race, Health, Power, and Speculation
Sayantani DasGupta
5. Digital Life and Health Humanities
Olivia Banner
6. The Palimpsest: Black and Ethnic Minority Perspectives in Health Humanities
Nehal El-Hadi
7. Representations of Medical and Health Delivery Paradigms
Phillip Barrish
8. Post-Conflict Reconciliation and the Health Humanities: The Warrior Chorus Program
Peter Meineck
9. Comics and Graphic Medicine as a Third Space for the Health Humanities
Susan M. Squier
10. Medicine within Health Humanities
Gail Allsopp
11. A Health Humanities Sublime
Bradley Lewis
12. Visualizing within Health-Care Practice
Colin Macduff
13. The Health Humanities and the Creative Disciplines
Victoria Tischler
14. Co-Design as a Democratizing Force
Alastair Macdonald
15. Indigenous Health Humanities
Allison Crawford, Lisa Boivin and Lisa Richardson
16. Accessibility and Advocacy in Health Humanities
Susan Levy
17. The Role of the Imagination in the Practices of the Health Humanities
Marina Tsaplina and Raymond Barfield
18. Inventing Edward Jenner: Historicizing Anti-Vaccination
Travis Chi Wing Lau
19. Selling the De-Pharmaceuticalization of Insomnia: Semiotics, Drug Advertising, and the Social Life of Belsomra
Lorenzo Servitje
20. The Problem With "Burnout": Neoliberalisation, Biomedicine, and Other Soul Mates
Shane Neilson
21. Medical Poetics: Representing Global Health Humanities and the Case of 心
Lan A. Li
22. Creative Arts Adult Community Learning
Lydia Lewis
23. What Zombies Can Tell Us About Contemporary Health Care
Steven Schlozman
24. Finding the Subject in the Objectified: Problematizing the Dependence on Metrics for Patient Care in the United States
Brenda Hall and Paul Kadetz
25. Establishing, Promoting, and Growing the Health Humanities in Japan: A Review and a Vision for the Future
Jeffrey Huffman and Mami Inoue
26. Australia and New Zealand: A Circuitous Path to Health Humanities
Olaf Werder and Kate Holland
27. Imaginations of Health Humanities in African Contexts: The Development of Existing Critical Consciousness and Perspectives
Ikem Ifeobu
PART 2 APPLICATIONS
28. Intervention Theater
Rick Iedema
29. Gallery and Museum Visiting
Javier Saavedra
30. Poetry and Male Eating Disorders
Heike Bartel and Charley Baker
31. Photography
Susan Hogan
32. Fashion and Textiles
Rebecka Fleetwood-Smith
33. Classics
Peter Meineck
34. History
Anna Greenwood
35. Life-Writing
Frances Cadd
36. Reading
Philip Davis and Josie Billington
37. Dancing
Sara Houston
38. Masks
Peter Meineck
39. Puppetry
Marina Tsaplina and Cariad Astles
40. Drawing
Curie Scott
41. Papermaking
Drew Luan Matott and Gretchen M. Miller
42. Making Music
Rosie Perkins, Daisy Fancourt and Aaron Williamon
43. Shared Music Listening
Claire Garabedian
44. Clay Modeling
Elaine Argyle
45. Architecture
Santiago Quesada-Garcia and Pablo Valero-Flores
46. Digital Storytelling
Carla Rice
47. Heavy Metal Music
Charley Baker and Alex Bishop
48. Graphic Medicine
MK Czwerwiec and Brian Callender
49. Horticultural Arts
Jonathan Coope
50. Choirs and Singing
Stephen Clift
51. Ancient Texts
Christina Lee
52. Philosophy
Havi Carel
53. Capoeira
Mel Jordan, Edward J. Wright and Aimie Purser
54. Kundalina Yoga
Elvira Perez and Emily Haslam-Jones
55. Musical Composition and Vocal Expression
Brian Abrams
56. Storytelling
Alan Bleakley, Mike Wilson and Jon Allard
57. Applied Theatre
Gretchen Case and Sydney Cheek-O’Donnell
58. Visual Arts
Victoria Tischler
59. Knitting
Betsan Corkhill
60. Therapeutic Filmmaking
J. Lauren Johnson
61. Cooking
Danny George and Tomi D. Dreibelbis
62. Aesthetics of Space
Hilary Moss
63. Law
Lydia Bracken
64. Quilting
Jacqueline M. Atkinson
65. Sensory Design and Smart Textiles
Jenny Tillotson
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.
"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
