The Routledge Companion to Health Humanities

<p>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.</p><p>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:</p><ul> <p> </p> <li>Promotes creative public health.</li> <li>Opens new routes to health and well-being.</li> <li>Informs and drives better health care.</li> <li>Interrogates relationships between ill health and social equality.</li> <li>Develops humanist theory in relation to health and social care practice.</li> <li>Foregrounds cultural difference as a resource for positive change in society.</li> <li>Tests the humanity of an increasingly globalized health-care system.</li> <li>Looks to overcome structural and process obstacles to cross-disciplinary ventures.</li> <li>Champions co-construction, co-design, and mutuality in solving health and well-being challenges.</li> <li>Showcases less familiar, prominent, or celebrated creative practices.</li> <li>Includes multiple perspectives on the value and health benefits of the arts and humanities not limited to or dominated by medicine.</li> </ul><p>Divided into two main sections, the <i>Companion</i> 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.</p> <p>Introduction: Global Health Humanities and the Rise of Creative Public Health</p><p>Paul Crawford</p><p>PART 1 REFLECTIONS AND CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES</p><p>1. The Health Humanities, Genealogies of Health Care, and the Consolation of Understanding: Towards a Critique of “Recovery” in Mental Health </p><p>Brian Brown</p><p>2. On Applying the Arts and Humanities in Austere Times</p><p>Andrea Charise<b> </b></p><p>3. Creative Practices in Challenging Places</p><p>Emma Joyes and Charley Baker</p><p>4. Visionary Medicine: Race, Health, Power, and Speculation</p><p>Sayantani DasGupta </p><p>5. Digital Life and Health Humanities</p><p>Olivia Banner</p><p>6. The Palimpsest: Black and Ethnic Minority Perspectives in Health Humanities</p><p>Nehal El-Hadi</p><p>7. Representations of Medical and Health Delivery Paradigms </p><p>Phillip Barrish</p><p>8. Post-Conflict Reconciliation and the Health Humanities: The Warrior Chorus Program</p><p>Peter Meineck</p><p>9. Comics and Graphic Medicine as a Third Space for the Health Humanities</p><p>Susan M. Squier</p><p>10. Medicine within Health Humanities</p><p>Gail Allsopp</p><p>11. A Health Humanities Sublime</p><p>Bradley Lewis</p><p>12. Visualizing within Health-Care Practice</p><p>Colin Macduff</p><p>13. The Health Humanities and the Creative Disciplines</p><p>Victoria Tischler</p><p>14. Co-Design as a Democratizing Force </p><p>Alastair Macdonald</p><p>15. Indigenous Health Humanities</p><p>Allison Crawford, Lisa Boivin and Lisa Richardson </p><p>16. Accessibility and Advocacy in Health Humanities </p><p>Susan Levy</p><p>17. The Role of the Imagination in the Practices of the Health Humanities </p><p>Marina Tsaplina and <i>Raymond Barfield</i></p><p>18. Inventing Edward Jenner: Historicizing Anti-Vaccination</p><p>Travis Chi Wing Lau</p><p>19. Selling the De-Pharmaceuticalization of Insomnia: Semiotics, Drug Advertising, and the Social Life of Belsomra</p><p>Lorenzo Servitje</p><p>20. The Problem With "Burnout": Neoliberalisation, Biomedicine, and Other Soul Mates</p><p>Shane Neilson</p><p>21. Medical Poetics: Representing Global Health Humanities and the Case of 心</p><p>Lan A. Li</p><p>22.<b> </b>Creative Arts Adult Community Learning</p><p>Lydia Lewis </p><p>23. What Zombies Can Tell Us About Contemporary Health Care</p><p>Steven Schlozman</p><p>24. Finding the Subject in the Objectified: Problematizing the Dependence on Metrics for Patient Care in the United States</p><p>Brenda Hall and Paul Kadetz </p><p>25. Establishing, Promoting, and Growing the Health Humanities in Japan: A Review and a Vision for the Future</p><p>Jeffrey Huffman and Mami Inoue</p><p>26. Australia and New Zealand: A Circuitous Path to Health Humanities </p><p>Olaf Werder and Kate Holland</p><p>27. Imaginations of Health Humanities in African Contexts: The Development of Existing Critical Consciousness and Perspectives</p><p>Ikem Ifeobu</p><p>PART 2 APPLICATIONS</p><p>28. Intervention Theater</p><p>Rick Iedema </p><p>29. Gallery and Museum Visiting</p><p>Javier Saavedra </p><p>30. Poetry and Male Eating Disorders</p><p>Heike Bartel and Charley Baker</p><p>31. Photography</p><p>Susan Hogan </p><p>32. Fashion and Textiles</p><p>Rebecka Fleetwood-Smith</p><p>33. Classics</p><p>Peter Meineck</p><p>34. History </p><p>Anna Greenwood</p><p>35. Life-Writing</p><p>Frances Cadd</p><p>36. Reading</p><p>Philip Davis and Josie Billington</p><p>37. Dancing</p><p>Sara Houston </p><p>38. Masks</p><p>Peter Meineck</p><p>39. Puppetry</p><p><em>Marina Tsaplina and Cariad Astles</em> </p><p>40. Drawing</p><p>Curie Scott </p><p>41. Papermaking</p><p>Drew Luan Matott and Gretchen M. Miller</p><p>42. Making Music</p><p>Rosie Perkins, Daisy Fancourt and Aaron Williamon</p><p>43. Shared Music Listening </p><p>Claire Garabedian</p><p>44. Clay Modeling</p><p>Elaine Argyle </p><p>45. Architecture</p><p>Santiago Quesada-Garcia and Pablo Valero-Flores</p><p>46. Digital Storytelling </p><p>Carla Rice </p><p>47. Heavy Metal Music</p><p>Charley Baker and Alex Bishop</p><p>48. Graphic Medicine </p><p>MK Czwerwiec and Brian Callender</p><p>49. Horticultural Arts</p><p>Jonathan Coope</p><p>50. Choirs and Singing</p><p>Stephen Clift </p><p>51. Ancient Texts</p><p>Christina Lee</p><p>52. Philosophy</p><p>Havi Carel</p><p>53. Capoeira</p><p>Mel Jordan, Edward J. Wright and Aimie Purser</p><p>54. Kundalina Yoga</p><p>Elvira Perez and Emily Haslam-Jones</p><p>55. Musical Composition and Vocal Expression</p><p>Brian Abrams </p><p>56. Storytelling</p><p>Alan Bleakley, Mike Wilson and Jon Allard</p><p>57. Applied Theatre</p><p>Gretchen Case and Sydney Cheek-O’Donnell </p><p>58. Visual Arts</p><p>Victoria Tischler</p><p>59. Knitting</p><p>Betsan Corkhill</p><p>60. Therapeutic Filmmaking</p><p>J. Lauren Johnson</p><p>61. Cooking </p><p>Danny George and Tomi D. Dreibelbis </p><p>62. Aesthetics of Space</p><p>Hilary Moss</p><p>63. Law</p><p>Lydia Bracken</p><p>64. Quilting</p><p>Jacqueline M. Atkinson</p><p>65. Sensory Design and Smart Textiles</p><p>Jenny Tillotson</p>