This chapter charts the process whereby regional Arts in Health bodies became a national
network whose aim and ethos was closely allied to Tony Blair's concept of 'the third way' …

This final chapter summarises preceding ones, drawing out a possible answer to the
question posed by the question: When Was Arts in Health? It then goes on to examine the …

Definitions of culture and health were radically challenged in the 1960s and 70s through
new ways of living, working and thinking. Part of counter-cultural 'revolutions', crosscurrents …

Arts in health is at a fork in the road. The hard-paved route, The Empirical Highway, leads to
probable damnation by way of austerity culture, a narrowing definition of accredited practice …

The contemporary challenges to health and well-being expose a tendency towards two
contrasting modes of engagement and understanding. On the one hand, policy analysts …

Arts in community health projects first appeared in the United Kingdom in the late 1980s,
placing local arts development in health promotion and primary-care contexts. I have …

This book critically appraises the field of Arts in Health in the light of the recent public health
crisis and so-called culture wars. A new term was coined in Britain in 2017 for this area of …

Welcome to the inaugural issue of Arts & Health: An International Journal of Research,
Policy and Practice. In our capacity as executive editors of this new publication we would …

Arts in community health is a distinct area of activity that is characterised by the use of
participatory arts to promote health. Based on the latest international research, this book …

The area of arts and health in the UK has expanded considerably in the last decades, as the
nature and scope has become more diverse, and the target «audience'has broadened from …