Arts in Health: Designing and Researching Interventions

ISBN-13: 9780198792079 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 352 str.

Daisy Fancourt

Opis

Arts in Health: Designing and Researching Interventions provides a complete overview of how to go about undertaking research and practice in the field of arts in health. It starts by exploring the context for arts in health interventions, including the history of the use of arts in health and the theoretical and political developments that have laid the foundations for its flourishing. It also considers what 'arts in health' encompasses and the range of disciplinesinvolved.

Recenzje

Daisy Fancourt is to be congratulated for presenting this timely overview of history, theory and policy relevant to the growing field of arts and health. This will no doubt become an invaluable source for all those involving themselves in this burgeoning area of activity.

O autorze

Dr Daisy Fancourt is a Wellcome Research Fellow in the Department of Behavioural Science and Health, University College London. Her research focuses on the effects of arts participation on neuroendocrine and immune response, the use of the arts within clinical settings and the psychosocial impact of cultural engagement at an individual and public health level.