Dr Janelle Adsit (Assistant Professor, Humboldt State University, U

Writing and Health Care

Creative and Critical Approaches
Herausgeber: Harper, Graeme

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A practical introduction to the fields of arts in health, health humanities, and narrative medicine from the perspective of a creative writer, this book teaches artists, patients, and health practitioners how to exercise the benefits of aesthetic thinking.

Produktdetails

• Approaches to Writing
• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Mai 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 446g
• ISBN-13: 9781350417083
• ISBN-10: 1350417084
• Artikelnr.: 70957071

Autorenporträt

Janelle Adsit is Associate Professor of Creative Writing at California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt, USA. She is editor of the anthology Critical Creative Writing; co-author of Writing Intersectional Identities; and author of Toward an Inclusive Creative Writing (Bloomsbury, 2019). She also has written a book of poems titled Unremitting Entrance (2015). In the community and with her local Hospice, Adsit co-facilitates writing workshops that address stress, pain, and grief. As an extension of these workshops, Adsit's research is located within the fields of Arts in Health and Narrative Medicine.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
A Note for Instructors: The Place of Health Care in the Creative Writing
Curriculum
How to Use This Book
Introduction
Chapter 1 - Relationships Between Writing and Health
Chapter 2 - Narrative Medicine and Other Health-Related Arts
Chapter 3 - Praxis: Key Concepts & Practices
Chapter 4 - Bodies of Writing - and Writing the Body
Chapter 5 - Writing for Social Change
Chapter 6 - Considerations and Craft
Chapter 7 - Writing Groups
Chapter 8 - Pausing Here
Appendices - Additional Resources
Selected Bibliography and Reading List
Employment Opportunities at the Intersection of Arts and Health Care
Organizations to Know
Sample Syllabi
Sample Handouts
Index