Music and Creativity in Healthcare Settings

<p>Through a series of vivid case studies, <i>Music and Creativity in Healthcare Settings: Does Music Matter?</i> documents the ways in which music brings humanity to sterile healthcare spaces, and its significance for people dealing with major illness. It also considers the notion of the arts as a vessel to explore humanitarian questions surrounding serious illness, namely what it is to be human. Overarching themes include: taking control; security and safety; listening; the normalization of the environment; being an individual; expressing emotion; transcendence and hope and expressing the inexpressible. </p><p>With an emphasis on service user narratives, chapters are enriched with examples of good practice using music in healthcare. Furthermore, a focus on aesthetic deprivation contributes to debates on the intrinsic and instrumental value of music and the arts in modern society. This concise study will be a valuable source of inspiration for care givers and service users in the health sector; it will also appeal to scholars and researchers in the areas of Music medicine and music Therapy, and the Medical Humanities.</p> <p>LIST OF FIGURES</p><p>LIST OF ONLINE FILES</p><p>INTRODUCTION </p><p>CHAPTER 1 LISTENING</p><p>CHAPTER 2 SELF EXPRESSION: TELLING MY STORY</p><p>CHAPTER 3 DISSONANCE: WHEN MUSIC DOESN’T WORK </p><p>CHAPTER 4 EXCELLENCE: MUSIC MATTERS IN THE HEALTHCARE ENVIRONMENT </p><p>CHAPTER 5 POLYPHONY : ISSUES OF PROFESSIONALISM AND WORKING AS A TEAM </p><p>FINAL THOUGHTS</p>