Health humanities
Health humanitiesis aninterdisciplinaryfield of study that draws on aspects of theartsandhumanitiesin its approach to health care, health and well-being.[1]It involves the application of the creative or fine arts (includingvisual arts,music,performing arts) and humanities disciplines (includingliterary studies,languages,law,history,philosophy,religion,etc.) to questions of human health and well-being.[2]This applied capacity of the humanities is not itself a novel idea; however, the construct of the health humanities only began to emerge in the first decade of the 21st century.
History
[edit]Historically, the roots informing the health humanities can be traced back to, and can now be considered to include, such multidisciplinary areas as themedical humanities[3]and theexpressive therapies/creative arts therapies.[citation needed]
In the health humanities, health (and the promotion of health) is understood according to theconstructivist(and othernon-positivist) principles indigenous to the humanities, as opposed to thepositivismof science.[4]The health humanities are rooted in dialogical (negotiated, intersubjective voices of multiple truths), versus monological (a singular, authoritative voice of "the" truth) perspectives on health. As such, evidence upon which health practices are based is generally consideredaxiological(based in meanings, values, and aesthetics), versusepistemological(based in factual knowledge), in orientation. The health humanities are not an alternative to the health sciences, but rather offer a contrasting paradigm and pragmatic approach with respect to health and its promotion, and can function in a manner that is complementary to the health sciences.[citation needed]
In January 2009,Paul Crawfordbecame the world's first Professor of Health Humanities at theUniversity of Nottingham,and led with Victoria Tischler, Charley Baker, Brian Brown, Lisa Mooney-Smith and Ronald Carter the development of theArts and Humanities Research Council-funded International Health Humanities Network. Baccalaureate and Masters programs in health humanities have been developed in the US, Canada and UK.[5][6]In the UK, a Health Humanities Centre was established in 2015 atUniversity College London,dedicated to research and teaching in the health humanities, including aMaster of Artsdegree in health humanities.[7]In 2020, aMaster of Sciencein Research in Health Humanities and Arts started atThe University of Edinburgh.[8]
Textbooks on the health humanities includeHealth Humanities Reader,[9]Health Humanities,[10]Research Methods in Health Humanities,[11]andThe Routledge Companion to Health Humanities.[12]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^Crawford, P. (2020) Introduction: Global health humanities and the rise of creative public health. In:The Routledge Companion to Health Humanities,eds. P. Crawford, B. Brown, & A. Charise. London: Routledge, 1-7: 3.
- ^"What is Health Humanities?".SCOPE: The Health Humanities Learning Lab.2016.Retrieved15 September2016.
- ^"Medical Humanities – BMJ Journals".Mh.bmj.Retrieved5 July2010.
- ^Squier, S. M. (2007). Beyond nescience: The intersectional insights of health humanities.Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, 50(3), 334-337.
- ^Berry, S.L., Lamb, E.G., and Jones, J. (2016). Health Humanities Baccalaureate Programs in the United States. Center for Literature and Medicine, Hiram College. hiram.edu/images/pdfs/centerlitmed/HHBP_8_11_16.pdf. 14 December 2019.
- ^Peterkin, A.D. and Skorzewska, A. (2018). Health Humanities in Post-Graduate Medical Education. Oxford University Press: Oxford.
- ^"UCL Health Humanities Centre".9 October 2020.[permanent dead link]
- ^"Programme Introduction".
- ^Jones, T., Wear, D., & Friedman, L. D. (Eds.). (2014).Health Humanities Reader.New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
- ^Crawford, P., Brown, B., Baker, C., Tischler, V., & Abrams, B. (2015).Health Humanities.London: Palgrave-Macmillan.
- ^Klugman, C.M., & Lamb, E.G. (Eds.). (2019).Research Methods in Health Humanities,Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- ^Crawford, P., Brown, B., & Charise, A. (Eds.). (2020).The Routledge Companion to Health Humanities,London: Routledge
Further reading
[edit]- Jones, Therese; Blackie, Michael; Garden, Rebecca; Wear, Delese (2017)."The Almost Right Word: The Move From Medical to Health Humanities".Academic Medicine.92(7): 932–935.doi:10.1097/ACM.0000000000001518.PMID28657553.