Introduction: Global Health Humanities and the Rise of Creative Public Health

Crawford, Paul

Abstract

Health humanities is a fast-growing field of research, education, and practice that has generated a more inclusive, democratizing and applied approach to arts and humanities in health care, health, and well-being. Its rise over the past thirteen years represents an interdisciplinary departure from the longer-established tradition of medical humanities. However, it seeks to enjoin the medical humanities as well as fields such as arts and health, expressive therapies, community arts, and social prescribing to work more collaboratively to advance creative public health. This introductory chapter includes a brief overiew of the origins of the field of health humanities, its emergent definitions, early critical reception and its practical application and work, or praxis. It also includes a short outline of the diverse themes treated in this important and diverse volume.

Citation

Crawford, P. (2020). Introduction: Global Health Humanities and the Rise of Creative Public Health. In The Routledge Companion to Health Humanities. Routledge

• Online Publication Date: Feb 24, 2020
• Publication Date: Feb 24, 2020
• Deposit Date: Jun 24, 2020
• Publicly Available Date: Jun 24, 2020
• Publisher: Routledge
• Book Title: The Routledge Companion to Health Humanities
• ISBN: 9781138579903
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/4707053
• Publisher URL: https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Companion-to-Health-Humanities/Crawford-Brown-Charise/p/book/9781138579903
• Additional Information: This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge in The Routledge Companion to Health Humanities on February 24, 2020, available online: https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Companion-to-Health-Humanities/Crawford-Brown-Charise/p/book/9781138579903
• Contract Date: Sep 22, 2019