Art+medicine collaborative practice : transforming the experience of head and neck cancer /

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 Bradley Necyk, this co...

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Other Authors: Brett-MacLean, Pamela (Editor), McTavish, Lianne, 1967- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Edmonton : University of Alberta Press, [2019]
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Summary: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 Bradley 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.
Physical Description:xxiii, 67 pages : color illustrations ; 23 x 23 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:177212415X
9781772124156