Creative Arts in Humane Medicine

Creative Arts in Humane Medicine is a book for medical educators, practitioners, students and those in the allied health professions who wish to learn how the arts can contribute toward a more caring and empathic approach to medicine. Topical research and inspiring real-life accounts from international innovators in the field of humanistic medicine show how the creative arts in varied forms can contribute toward greater learning and understanding in medicine, as well as improved health and quality of life for patients and practitioners.

Table of contents
Cover	1
Contents	8
Foreword: Medical Students Support Arts and Humanities in Medicine	12
Acknowledgments	14
Introduction: Touching the Heart of What It Is To Be Human	16
SECTION 1: EDUCATING FOR EMPATHY THROUGH THE ARTS	22
1 Teaching Empathy Through Role-Play and Fabric Art: An Innovative Pedagogical Approach for End-of-Life Health Care Providers	22
2 Remember Me for Birds : An Ethnodrama about Aging, Mental Health and Autonomy	45
Lifelines - The Art of Medicine Challenges the Humanity Within Us	60
3 The Visual Arts in Health Education at the Melbourne Dental School	61
SECTION 2: THE ARTS AND PRACTITIONER SELF-CARE	76
4 Advocating for Drama in Patient Communication	76
5 Reader’s Theatre and Sharing the Experience of Caregiving: Home Is Where the Heart Is	81
6 The Stanford Arts and Anesthesia Soiree: Performing to Create Community and Understand Anesthesiology	97
7 Art Practice and Bringing Emotions to Life in the Anatomy Lab: The Story of an Artist in Residence	103
8 Music as Medicine for Interdisciplinary Team Self-Care and Stress Management in Palliative Care	120
9 Expressive Arts and Practitioner Self-Care: Simply Being Human	132
Lifelines - Medical Doodles: Drawing Toward Learning and Remembering	144
SECTION 3: NAVIGATING WITH NARRATIVE THROUGH LIFE EXPERIENCE	146
10 The Narrative Reflective Process: Giving Voice to Experiences of Illness	146
11 Navigating Through Care: My Life Experiences with Medical Practitioners	162
12 The Childhood Novel and the Art of the Interview in Pediatrics Practice	169
Lifelines - The Healing Arts Program, St. Paul’s Hospital, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan	181
13 Arts-Based Inquiry and a Clinician Educator’s Journey of Discovery	184
SECTION 4: THE CREATIVE ARTS IN ACTION FOR CHANGE IN HEALTH	184
Lifelines - Art in Action for Change in Health Care	202
14 From Human Destructiveness to Creativity	208
15 Digital Stories for Teaching Ethics and Law to Health and Social Service Professionals	214
Lifelines - Reaching Out with Heartfelt Art: Medical and Fine Arts Students Build Bridges to Communities	220
Contributors	226

Table of contents

Accessibility

EPUB

Book details