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Health Humanities Health Humanities Paul Crawford Professor of Health Humanities, University of Nottingham, UK Brian Brown Professor of Health Communication, De Montfort University, UK Charley Baker Lecturer in Mental Health, University of Nottingham, UK Victoria Tischler Senior Lecturer in Psychology, University of the Arts, London, London College of Fashion, UK and Brian Abrams Associate Professor, Montclair State University, USA © Paul Crawford, Brian Brown, Charley Baker, Victoria Tischler and Brian Abrams 2015 Softcover reprint of the hard cover 1st edition 2015 978-1-137-28259-0 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. 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Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN 978-1-137-28260-6 ISBN 978-1-137-28261-3 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9781137282613 This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. Logging, pulping and manufacturing processes are expected to conform to the environmental regulations of the country of origin. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Crawford, Paul, 1963– , author. Health humanities / Paul Crawford, Brian Brown, Charley Baker, Victoria Tischler, Brian Abrams. p. ; cm. Includes bibliographical references. I. Brown, Brian, 1962– , author. II. Baker, Charley, 1981– , author. III. Tischler, Victoria, 1968– , author. IV. 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For Jamie, Ruby and Owen Contents List of Figures and Tables viii Acknowledgements ix About the Authors x 1 Health Humanities 1 2 Anthropology and the Study of Culture 20 3 Applied Literature 38 4 Narrative and Applied Linguistics 60 5 Performing Arts and the Aesthetics of Health 82 6 Visual Art and Transformation 106 7 Practice Based Evidence: Delivering Humanities into Healthcare 120 8 Creative Practice as Mutual Recovery 137 Concluding Remarks 153 References 157 Index 182 vii List of Figures and Tables Figures 5.1 The relational-aesthetic-temporal dimension across several basic domains of health. 88 5.2 The essence of music as relational, aesthetic, temporal being – the ‘root’ essence of the performing arts. 90 5.3 Sound, while potentially present, is neither necessary nor sufficient in defining the core essence of music. 93 5.4 The essence of dance as a relational, aesthetic, temporal, corporal way of being. 96 5.5 The essence of drama as a relational, aesthetic, temporal, narrative way of being. 98 5.6 Corporal space and sound, while potentially present, are neither necessary nor sufficient in defining the core essence of drama. 100 Table 4.1 Keywords by categorisation of health themes in adolescent health emails 76 viii Acknowledgements The authors are very grateful to the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) for providing successive funding for the health humanities. Early on, such funding [AH/G00968611; AH/J00220811] supported the creation of the Madness and Literature Network (MLN) and International Health Humanities Network (IHHN), respectively. The work of MLN was further advanced by The Leverhulme Trust who funded an investigation into post-war British and American representation of madness. More recently, major AHRC/Research Councils UK (RCUK) funding [AH/K00336411] established a national consortium investigating creative practice as mutual recovery as part of the Connected Communities programme. We would like to thank all members of the Creative Practice as Mutual Recovery con- sortium for helping to develop an increasingly rich understanding of ‘mutual recovery’, as discussed in Chapter 8. We would also like to thank all members and associates of the Centre for Social Futures at the Institute of Mental Health and Centre for Advanced Studies, The University of Nottingham. Thanks also go to Martin Stott, Neil Robinson and Nick Palmer for stalwart work in bringing policy ears to health humanities. Finally, we would like to thank our many compa- triots across the globe – far too many now to mention individually – who have joined the health humanities club and lead and inspire new and exciting developments! ix About the Authors Paul Crawford is the world’s first Professor of Health Humanities and has been the leading figure in developing the field of health humanities worldwide. He is Principal Investigator for the AHRC- funded International Health Humanities Network (IHHN), Madness and Literature Network (MLN) and the Creative Practice as Mutual Recovery programme and leads the International Health Humanities Conference series, bringing substantial teams of interdisciplinary scholars together. He directs both Nottingham Health Humanities and Centre for Social Futures at the Institute of Mental Health/ School of Health Sciences, The University of Nottingham, UK. In 2013 he was made a Fellow of the prestigious Academy of Social Sciences for his work in advancing applied linguistics in healthcare and is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Brian Brown is Professor of Health Communication at De Montfort University, UK. The core of his work has focused on the interpreta- tion of human experience across a variety of different disciplines including healthcare, philosophy, education and spirituality studies, exploring how this may be understood with a view to improving practice and with regard to theoretical development in the social sciences. Particularly, this concerns notions of governmentality and habitus from Foucauldian and Bourdieusian sociology and how the analysis of everyday experience can afford novel theoretical developments. Charley Baker is Lecturer in Mental Health at the School of Health Sciences at The University of Nottingham where she teaches men- tal health nursing students at BSc level and on the Graduate Entry Nursing programme. She is lead author of the co-authored mono- graph Madness in Post-1945 British and American Fiction (Palgrave, 2010) and co-founded the IHHN and MLN. She has a BA and MA in literature and is working on her PhD on psychosis and postmodern- ism at Royal Holloway, University of London. She is also Associate Editor of Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing and serves on the editorial board of Journal of Medical Humanities. x About the Authors xi Victoria Tischler is Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of the Arts, London, London College of Fashion. Her research inter- ests concern the use of creative approaches in mental health care. She teaches psychology applied to fashion. She is also a curator and has developed exhibitions focused on the medico-historical signifi- cance of art created in asylums. Brian Abrams is Associate Professor of Music and Coordinator of Music Therapy at Montclair State University, New Jersey, USA. He is an Analytical Music Therapist and Fellow of the Association for Music and Imagery. He has been a music therapist since 1995, with experience across a wide range of clinical contexts. His research has included topics such as music therapy in cancer care, music psycho- therapy, humanistic music therapy, and the interdisciplinary area of health humanities. He has also contributed to the establishment of several medical music therapy programmes and served on editorial boards of numerous journals and as President of the American Music Therapy Association (AMTA).
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