Movement as Method: Some Existential and Epistemological Reflections on Dance in the Health Humanities

Purser, Aimie

Abstract

The embodied creative practice of dance facilitates a particular kind of awareness or attunement which can inform both the therapeutic and the intellectual work of the Health Humanities. This paper therefore considers dance as a way of 'doing' Health Humanities in two interlinked ways: dance as a way of healing and dance as a way of knowing. In bringing together carnal and the creative dimensions of human experience, dance offers us a way of making sense of our place in the world that provides us both with much needed existential security (tethering) and much needed epistemological freedom (untethering).

Citation

Purser, A. (2021). Movement as Method: Some Existential and Epistemological Reflections on Dance in the Health Humanities. Journal of Medical Humanities, 42, 165–178. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10912-021-09679-1

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Jan 12, 2021
• Online Publication Date: Mar 3, 2021
• Publication Date: Mar 3, 2021
• Deposit Date: Jan 27, 2021
• Publicly Available Date: Mar 4, 2022
• Journal: Journal of Medical Humanities
• Print ISSN: 1041-3545
• Electronic ISSN: 1573-3645
• Publisher: Springer Verlag
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 42
• Pages: 165–178
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10912-021-09679-1
• Keywords: Philosophy; Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health; Health Policy; Health(social science); General Medicine
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/5272463
• Publisher URL: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10912-021-09679-1