In recent decades medical humanities and medical history have both emerged as rich and varied sub disciplines. "Medicine, Health and the Arts "is a collection of specially commissioned essays designed to bring together different approaches to these complex fields. Written by a selection of established and emerging scholars in the field, this volume embraces a breadth and range of methodological approaches to highlight not only developments in well-established areas of debate (for example arts therapies), but also tracing newly emerging areas of investigation, such as graphic medicine, new...
In recent decades medical humanities and medical history have both emerged as rich and varied sub disciplines. "Medicine, Health and the Arts "is a...
This text exploits the power of phenomenological methods to access and describe lived moral experiences of patients and their families, their fundamentally social nature, and the genetic, social and developmental origins of relational agency, suffering and decision making.
This text exploits the power of phenomenological methods to access and describe lived moral experiences of patients and their families, their fundamen...
This book provides a thought-provoking guide to conducting collaborative arts-based research. Focusing on ways that social inquiry might be conducted with marginalised groups to promote social justice, the text offers chapters on:
Telling 'alternative' stories through a variety of methods from crafts to digital film
Visual and metaphorical approaches to social research including photography, art and poetry
Performative methods that include drama, dance, music and performance art
Foster introduces relevant...
This book provides a thought-provoking guide to conducting collaborative arts-based research. Focusing on ways that social inquiry might be conduct...
The social position of learning disabled people has shifted rapidly over the last 20 years, from long-stay institutions, first into community homes and day centres, and now to a currently emerging goal of "ordinary lives" for individuals using person-centred support and personal budgets. These approaches promise to replace a century and a half of "scientific" pathological models based on expert assessment, and of the accompanying segregated social administration which determined how and where people led their lives, and who they were.
This innovative volume explains how concepts of...
The social position of learning disabled people has shifted rapidly over the last 20 years, from long-stay institutions, first into community homes...
The field of the medical humanities is developing rapidly, however, there has also been parallel concern from sceptics that the value of medical humanities educational interventions should be open to scrutiny and evidence. Just what is the impact of medical humanities provision upon the education of medical students? In an era of limited resources, is such provision worth the investment? This innovative text addresses these pressing questions, describes the contemporary territory comprising the medical humanities in medical education, and explains how this field may be developed as a key...
The field of the medical humanities is developing rapidly, however, there has also been parallel concern from sceptics that the value of medical hu...
Person-centred health care is increasingly endorsed as a key element of high-quality care, yet, in practice, it often means patient-centred health care. This book scrutinizes the principle of primacy of patient welfare, which, although deeply embedded in health professionalism, is long overdue for critical analysis and debate. It appears incontestable because patients have greater immediate health needs than clinicians and the patient-clinician encounter is often recognized as a moral enterprise as well as a service contract. However, Buetow argues that the implication that clinician...
Person-centred health care is increasingly endorsed as a key element of high-quality care, yet, in practice, it often means patient-centred health ...
As digital life stories continue to assume more and more significance across a range of institutions, so too does their potential to bring into focus once marginalised and neglected voices. Breaking new ground by reframing multimedia life stories as a resource for education, public health, and policy, this book challenges policymakers, professionals, and researchers to reimagine how they find out about and respond to people's daily lives and experiences of health, disability, and well-being.
The book develops theoretical, methodological, and practical resources for listening to...
As digital life stories continue to assume more and more significance across a range of institutions, so too does their potential to bring into foc...
Despite the common experience of being told that it's all in their heads, that they're making themselves sick, individuals with these symptoms are experiencing a very real, sometimes debilitating, illness phenomenon. But what is it? Physical or mental illness? Political and social identity? Cultural, narrative or discursive construction? When something goes awry at the...
