Table of Contents:
  • Critical conversations : establishing dialogue in the medical humanities
  • Towards a "critical medical humanities"
  • Oh, the humanit(ies)! : dissent, democracy, and danger
  • Medicine and the visual arts
  • Graphic medicine : the portrayal of illness in underground and autobiographical comics
  • Art in medical education : practice and dialogue
  • The post-war medical humanities : a literary perspective
  • Reinterpreting the wound of philoctetes : a case study in literature and medicine
  • The heart of the matter : creating meaning in health and medicine through writing
  • Performance anxiety : the relationship between social and aesthetic drama in medicine and health
  • Theatre, performance and "the century of the brain" : influences of cognitive neuroscience on professional theatre practice
  • Medical humanities, drama, therapy, schools and evidence : discourses and practices
  • Music, therapy and technology : an opinion piece
  • The impact of cochlear implants on musical experience
  • The development of clinical music therapy in adult mental health practice : music, health and therapy.