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experiencing the health humanities through artists' books
xii, 202 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
"This book investigates how handmade artists' books excite the senses to communicate lived experiences of illness and disability. The combination of text, image, materials, form, and the gesture of turning pages make artists' books a powerful source of expressive potential. These works of art not only enable patients to create meaning from their medical experiences, but also invite healthcare learners to an uncensored read of critiques of Western medicine. Artists' books are gaining in popularity among medical institutions in an age of digital screens due to their intimate handheld, multi-sensory expressions of bodily phenomena that may be difficult or impossible to communicate through words alone. By applying a phenomenological practice of sensing and meaning-making, the author provides step-by-step instructions for creating new artists' books as part of health humanities pedagogies. This book thus serves as a philosophical and pragmatic example of how to experience artists' books within healthcare contexts and why"--
How to read artists' books -- An unsettled medium : the turbulent taxonomy and collection of printed matter on illness -- The artist's challenge to medical paradigms -- Research-creation in patients' artists' books -- Artists' books in the clinic and classroom -- "Book as body" workshops : a case study of health humanities pedagogies.
Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Concordia University, 2021, under the title: Book as body : the meaning-making of artists' books in the health humanities.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Medical humanities: criticism and creativity ; vol 3