Palgrave Encyclopedia of the Health Humanities

1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-3-031-32603-5
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan

Buch, Englisch, 1180 Seiten, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm

Palgrave Encyclopedia of the Health Humanities provides a critical resource for understanding and debating the multi-, inter, and transdisciplinary research and practices of the health humanities. These seminal and international reference volumes for students, scholars, and practitioners draws on the fields that link health and social care and wellbeing with the arts and humanities. The entries provide particular emphasis on the history of the field and the praxis, functions, and applications of the health humanities for individual, community, public, international, and global health. Also explored in these volumes are healthcare stakeholders not previously considered in relation to a humanities perspective, such as paramedical and allied health staff and informal carers. Suitable for undergraduate and graduate students, as well as practitioners and scholars across the health humanities, humanities, arts, social sciences, public health, and medicine. The major focus of the volume is to highlight the role of the health humanities in enriching the social, cultural, and phenomenological experience and understanding of illness, health, and wellbeing.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Crawford, Paul

Kadetz, Paul

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Public Health, Gesundheitsmanagement, Gesundheitsökonomie, Gesundheitspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologische Disziplinen Gesundheitspsychologie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Medizinische Ethik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Angewandte Ethik & Soziale Verantwortung Medizinische Ethik
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Entwicklungsstudien
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Adult Community Learning


2. Black and Ethnic Minority Perspectives in the Health Humanities


3. Classics and Health Humanities


4. Cultural Studies of Medicine


5. Dance


6. Digital Culture and Health Humanities


7. Drama and Engaging with Low Income Communities


8. Drawing


9. Health humanities and Environmental Issues


10. Health Humanities and Multicultural Issues


11. Health Humanities in Africa


12. Health Humanities, Engagement with Food and The Culinary Arts


13. Healthy Architecture and Cities


14. Humanities Research and Development Addressing Infection


15. Legal Aspects of Healthcare from the Beginning to End of Life


16. Masks


17. Medicine and the Health Humanities


18. Mental Health Zines and Graphic Medicine


19. Music Appreciation


20. Narrative Psychiatry


21. Needlecraft


22. On Anatomy: The Heart, Spleen, Brain in Global Chinese Medicine


23. Papermaking as Trauma Therapy


24. People and Green Spaces


25. Puppetry in the Health Humanities


26. Race Health and Power in the Health Humanities


27. Storytelling's Contribution to the Health Humanities


28. Wonder and Philosophy as Grounding Sources in Health Humanities


29. Art and the Schizophrenic Spectrum


30. Art on Prescription: Practice and Evidence


31. Clothing, Textiles, and Everyday Creativity in the Lives of People with Dementia


32. Colouring for Wellbeing


33. Ethnodrama and Ethnotheatre: Bringing Research to Life


34. Language of Diagnosis in Mental Illness


35. Literature, Reading and Mental Health


36. Music and Dementia: “In the Moment” and Embodied Perspectives


37. Principles of Arts Interventions for People with Dementia


38. Commodification of Bodies in Modern Chinese Cinema


39. Health Humanities Pedagogy in China


40. Human Dissection in Medical Education


41. Illness Narratives in China


42. Medical Interaction and Conversation Analysis


43. Narrative Medicine in China


44. Privatisation of Healthcare in China


45. Research Bioethics in China


46. Agriculture and Health


47. Autoethnography and Healing


48. Ayurveda and Yoga


49. Cancer Communication


50. Digital Health

Über Autor(innen)

Paul Crawford is Professor of Health Humanities at the School of Health Sciences, Director of the Centre for Social Futures at the Institute of Mental Health, and Co-Director of Nottingham Health Humanities Research Priority Area, University of Nottingham, UK. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA, Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS) and Fellow of the Royal Society for Public Health (FRSPH). In 2008 he was awarded a Lord Dearing Award for Excellence in Teaching and Learning. He is the co-author of Health Humanities (Palgrave, 2015) as well as the author of numerous books and articles.

Paul Kadetz is Oxnam Chair of Science and Society, Director of the Medical Humanities, Drew University, USA and Associate, China Centre for Health and Humanity, UCL, UK. In addition to serving as the Director of the Medical Humanities programs at Drew, Paul is in the Department of Anthropology. He is also a senior research fellow at the University of Liverpool in China, an Associate and Lecturer of the China Centre for Health and Humanity at University College London, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts (UK). His areas of research and writing bridge the fields of International Health and Development, Critical Medical Anthropology and Global Health.