Palgrave Encyclopedia of the Health Humanities
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.
| ISBN: | 9783031326035 |
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| Auflage: | 1 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Seitenzahl: | 1180 |
| Produktart: | Gebunden |
| Herausgeber: | Crawford, Paul Kadetz, Paul |
| Verlag: | Springer International Publishing |
| Veröffentlicht: | 27.12.2025 |
| Schlagworte: | arts and healthcare bioethics health humanities illness literature and medicine literature and science medical humanities public health social work and social care well-being |
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.