Art-Medicine Collaborative Practice: Transforming the Experience of Head and Neck Cancer - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 177212415X ISBN 13: 9781772124156

Publisher: The University of Alberta Press, 2019

Synopsis

In its fusion of essays and artwork, Art+Medicine Collaborative Practice helps readers understand the lived realities of individuals with head and neck cancer. Featuring compelling original art from Ingrid Bachmann, Sean Caulfield, Jude Griebel, Jill Ho-You, Heather Huston, and Brad Necyk, this collaborative interdisciplinary exploration draws together the voices of patients, health care practitioners, and researchers with artists' empathic visualizations to offer a more holistic-more human-understanding of cancer treatment and its aftermath. Art+Medicine Collaborative Practice is an important book for scholars, practitioners, and students in health professions and medical humanities, as well as artists, arts-based researchers, and those interested in the areas of health and visual communication and knowledge translation.

About this title

Book Description

A unique fusion of medicine and art exploring the experience of head and neck cancer.

About the Author

Pamela Brett-MacLean is Associate Professor in Psychiatry and Director of the Arts and Humanities in Health and Medicine program in the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry at the University of Alberta.

Lianne McTavish is Professor in the Department of Art and Design at the University of Alberta. She specializes in early modern visual culture, critical museum theory, and the history of the body.

Edition details

• Publisher: The University of Alberta Press
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 177212415X
• ISBN 13: 9781772124156
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 96
• Editor: Brett-MacLean Pamela, McTavish Lianne