Public Health, Humanities and Magical Realism: A Creative-Relational Approach to Researching Human Experience

ISBN-13: 9781032051895 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 208 str.

Marisa de Andrade

Opis

This book calls for a re-conceptualisation of the public health evidence-base to include crucial forms of creative and relational data about people’s lived experiences that cannot be accessed through the biomedical approach to generating and using evidence.

Spis treści

1.What's real and unreal in public health?  2.Emergence - the gap between two epistemic bubbles.  3.Measuring Humanity-a methodological mine-(mind)-field.  4.Knowledge is Power.  5.Can you hear me?  6.Convergence - accepting our differences.

O autorze

Marisa de Andrade is an academic in health policy at the University of Edinburgh. She is Programme Director for the MSc by Research in Health Humanities and Arts; Programme Director for the PhD in Health in Social Science; Associate Director for the Centre for Creative-Relational Inquiry; and a Co-Director at the Binks Hub working with communities to co-produce a programme of research and knowledge exchange that promotes social justice, relational research methods and human flourishing. Marisa has led several traditional and community-based arts-informed public health studies. She is currently PI on an Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) collaborative place-based grant putting the arts at the helm of strategic decision-making across multiple sectors including health and social care, employability, education and social justice.