Overview
- Consolidates innovative scholarship across the health and medical humanities that bridges theory and practice
- Maps a complex, interdisciplinary field for researchers, students, and practitioners
- Outlines critical debates about and within the field, while incorporating medical humanities as an important and distinctive strand of scholarly activity
- Provides a detailed and inclusive accounting of a full range of healthcare activities and the relationships between these and the arts and humanities
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About this book
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 onthe fields that link health and social care and wellbeing with the arts and humanities. The entries provideparticular emphasis on the history of the field and the praxis, functions, and applicationsof the health humanities for individual, community, public, international, and global health. Also explored in these volumes arehealthcare 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 inenriching the social, cultural, and phenomenological experience and understanding of illness, health, and wellbeing.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
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 fellowat 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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Palgrave Encyclopedia of the Health Humanities
Editors: Paul Crawford, Paul Kadetz
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26825-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Springer Reference Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Reference Module Humanities and Social Sciences, Reference Module Humanities
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-26825-1Due: 19 June 2024
Topics: Comparative Literature, History of Science, Philosophy of Medicine, Public Health, Development and Health, Health Psychology