Medicine, Health and the Arts

Approaches to the Medical Humanities

Victoria Bates, Alan Bleakley, Sam Goodman, Victoria Bates, Alan Bleakley, Sam Goodman

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN: 9780415644310
• eBook ISBN: 9781136161100
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Global Development Studies

In recent decades, both medical humanities and medical history have emerged as rich and varied sub-disciplines. Medicine, Health and the Arts is a collection of specially commissioned essays designed to bring together different approaches to these complex fields. Written by a selection of established and emerging scholars, this volume embraces a breadth and range of methodological approaches to highlight not only developments in well-established areas of debate, but also newly emerging areas of investigation, new methodological approaches to the medical humanities and the value of the humanities in medical education.

Divided into five sections, this text begins by offering an overview and analysis of the British and North American context. It then addresses in-depth the historical and contemporary relationship between visual art, literature and writing, performance and music. There are three chapters on each art form, which consider how history can illuminate current challenges and potential future directions. Each section contains an introductory overview, addressing broad themes and methodological concerns; a case study of the impact of medicine, health and well-being on an art form; and a case study of the impact of that art form on medicine, health and wellbeing. The underlining theme of the book is that the relationship between medicine, health and the arts can only be understood by examining the reciprocal relationship and processes of exchange between them.

This volume promises to be a welcome and refreshing addition to the developing field of medical humanities. Both informative and thought provoking, it will be important reading for students, academics and practitioners in the medical humanities and arts in health, as well as health professionals, and all scholars and practitioners interested in the questions and debates surrounding medicine, health and the arts.

Index

Abse, Dannie 156

Academic Medicine 86

Adams, Kathleen 147

Aeschylus 128

Aesthetics 7, 11, 19, 30, 121, 234; Aesthetics of resistance 24; Avantgarde 23, 44, 61

Agee, James and Walker Evans 49

Agenda for Change 269

AIDS/HIV 64, 71–3, 112, 150, 176

Allied Health Professions 268

Alvin, Juliette 269

Analogue Theatre, The 187, 198, 200

Andreev, A. M. 248

Anglia Ruskin University 268

Annese, Jacopo 198–200

Ansdell, Gary 269

Aristotle 132, 134, 177

Articulate Hand, The 187

Arts for health/arts in healthcare 5, 9, 17, 22, 43, 108, 116–17, 148, 247, 271

Arts therapies 5, 17, 43, 148, 208–9, 247

Asclepius 133

Association of Music Therapists 268

Association of Poetry Therapy, The 148

Association of Professional Music Therapists (APMT) 266–7, 268, 269

Astbury, Brian 193–4, 202

Atkinson, Sarah 171, 175

Austin, Stephen 206–7

Baer, Neal 180–1

Bailes, Sarah Jane 182

Baker, Martin 66

Balint, Michael 50, 108, 109

Barker, Hannah and Liam Jarvis 198, 200–2

Barr, Donald A. 18

Barrington, Alison, 264, 267, 269

Bassman, Ron 149

Bates, Brian 190

Bates, Victoria i, iii, 3, 5, 20, 217

Bayfield, Roy 153–4

Beauty 233–4

Beck, Jessica 10, 183, 186

Becker, George 149

Becker, Howard 171

Beckett, Samuel 196

Bellany John and Roy Calne 51–4

Bellany, John 51, 55

Belling, Catherine, 23–4

Benjamin, Walter 141–2

Bennett, Max and Peter Hacker 201

Beresford-Peirce, Sybil 268, 269

Berger, John and Jean Mohr 46, 49–51, 55, 110

Berger, John 9, 46, 49–51, 108, 110

Berghoff, Beth 89

Berry, Sarah 33

Berry, Wendell 151

Bishop, Jeffrey 27

Blair, Rhonda 186, 192, 193, 201...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of figures and tables
• Notes on contributors
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• SECTION ONE The medical humanities: Britain and beyond
• SECTION TWO Visual arts
• SECTION THREE Literature and writing
• SECTION FOUR Performance
• SECTION FIVE Music
• Appendix: A timeline of the medical humanities
• Index