{"product_id":"routledge-companion-to-health-humanities","title":"Routledge Companion to Health Humanities","description":"The health humanities is a rapidly rising field, advancing an inclusive, democratizing, activist, applied, critical, and culturally diverse approach to delivering health and well-being 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:\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e Promotes creative public health.\u003cbr\u003eOpens new routes to health and well-being.\u003cbr\u003eInforms and drives better health care.\u003cbr\u003eInterrogates relationships between ill health and social equality.\u003cbr\u003eDevelops humanist theory in relation to health and social care practice.\u003cbr\u003eForegrounds cultural difference as a resource for positive change in society.\u003cbr\u003eTests the humanity of an increasingly globalized health-care system.\u003cbr\u003eLooks to overcome structural and process obstacles to cross-disciplinary ventures.\u003cbr\u003eChampions co-construction, co-design, and mutuality in solving health and well-being challenges.\u003cbr\u003eShowcases less familiar, prominent, or celebrated creative practices.\u003cbr\u003eIncludes multiple perspectives on the value and health benefits of the arts and humanities not limited to or dominated by medicine.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003eDivided 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.","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44556746129646,"sku":"9781032570341","price":74.39,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/9612\/7726\/files\/9781032570341_609c1c0d-5856-4010-9cb4-5f1195e5de51.jpg?v=1704951329","url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/routledge-companion-to-health-humanities","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}