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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.

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Author:   Paul Crawford ,  Paul Kadetz
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2026
ISBN:  

9783031326035

ISBN 10:   3031326032
Pages:   1180
Publication Date:   27 December 2025
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Table of Contents

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

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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.

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