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207 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm

Creativity and disease : how illness affects literature, art, and music / Philip Sandblom.

History and medicine : the humanities in medicine / Milton Lewis.

Medical humanities : an introduction / Thomas R. Cole, University of Texas Medical School at Houston, Nathan S. Carlin, University of Texas Medical School at Houston, Ronald A. Carson, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston.

Mitteilung (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. Kommission für Humanismusforschung)

Mitteilung XI der Kommission für Humanismusforschung

Humanismus und Medizin / herausgegeben von Rudolf Schmitz und Gundolf Keil.

Serie Monografías / Real Academia Nacional de Medicina

Medicina y humanidades / Diego Gracia Guillén.

Suitable as a text for medical humanities courses and for a much wider readership, Peter Barritt has brought together a collection of ideas, thoughts and references to illustrate how considering the arts develops a more human approach to medicine.

Humanity in healthcare : the heart and soul of medicine / Peter Barritt ; foreword by Iona Heath.

Pilgrims in medicine : conscience, legalism, and human rights : an allegory of medical humanities, foundational virtues, ethical principles, law and human rights in medical, personal, and professional development / Thomas Alured Faunce.

When walls become doorways : creativity and the transforming illness / Tobi Zausner.

"The health humanities is a rapidly rising field, advancing an inclusive, democratizing, activist, applied, critical and culturally diverse approach to delivering health and wellbeing 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 wellbeing; Informs and drives better healthcare; 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 wellbeing 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"--Provided by publisher

Routledge companions.

Routledge companions to literature series.

Routledge companions

Routledge companions to literature series

xxiii, 467 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

The Routledge companion to health humanities / edited by Paul Crawford, Brian Brown and Andrea Charise.

Using fictionalized case studies this series follows four patients through the medical process, from onset (Symptom) through Diagnosis, Treatment and Prognosis
Volume 1: Symptom. Examines the idea of 'symptom' as a route to understanding the structure of clinical practice -- Volume 2: Diagnosis. Explores the meaning of 'diagnosis' as a complex, culturally mediated interaction between individuals, scientific discoveries, social negotiation and historical change. -- Volume 3: Treatment. Considers the concept of treatment as an active process which produces an outcome, be it effective, inappropriate or inadequate. Enlightening reading. -- Volume 4: Prognosis. Contemplates the challenge of the prognosis, attempting to make sense of life and death. Considers, through personal and professional perspectives, the role of the medical profession in guiding patient experience.

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Creativity and disease : how illness affects literature, art, and music / Philip Sandblom.

History and medicine : the humanities in medicine / Milton Lewis.

Medical humanities : an introduction / Thomas R. Cole, University of Texas Medical School at Houston, Nathan S. Carlin, University of Texas Medical School at Houston, Ronald A. Carson, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston.

Humanismus und Medizin / herausgegeben von Rudolf Schmitz und Gundolf Keil.

Medicina y humanidades / Diego Gracia Guillén.

Humanity in healthcare : the heart and soul of medicine / Peter Barritt ; foreword by Iona Heath.

Pilgrims in medicine : conscience, legalism, and human rights : an allegory of medical humanities, foundational virtues, ethical principles, law and human rights in medical, personal, and professional development / Thomas Alured Faunce.

When walls become doorways : creativity and the transforming illness / Tobi Zausner.

The Routledge companion to health humanities / edited by Paul Crawford, Brian Brown and Andrea Charise.

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Creativity and disease : how illness affects literature, art, and music / Philip Sandblom.

History and medicine : the humanities in medicine / Milton Lewis.

Medical humanities : an introduction / Thomas R. Cole, University of Texas Medical School at Houston, Nathan S. Carlin, University of Texas Medical School at Houston, Ronald A. Carson, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston.

Humanismus und Medizin / herausgegeben von Rudolf Schmitz und Gundolf Keil.

Medicina y humanidades / Diego Gracia Guillén.

Humanity in healthcare : the heart and soul of medicine / Peter Barritt ; foreword by Iona Heath.

Pilgrims in medicine : conscience, legalism, and human rights : an allegory of medical humanities, foundational virtues, ethical principles, law and human rights in medical, personal, and professional development / Thomas Alured Faunce.

When walls become doorways : creativity and the transforming illness / Tobi Zausner.

The Routledge companion to health humanities / edited by Paul Crawford, Brian Brown and Andrea Charise.

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