The art of healing

This chapter examines how LOHAS salvages its “New Age” focus on self-development or actualization. It examines the Mind Cure, New Thought, and New Age movements in terms of their r...

Presents a holistic, object relations and arts-based model of healing for use in the mediation of difficult or catastrophic changes. Fascinating case vignettes are drawn from the p...

In the broadest sense, there should be no difference in the way a physiotherapist treats a sprained ankle in an elderly patient, an active younger person, or an elite athlete—withi...

Black Americans are more likely than Whites to die of cancer and heart disease, more likely to get diabetes and asthma, and less likely to get preventive care and screening. Some o...

Formal justice systems have not served the human rights of native and aboriginal groups well and have led to growing natural and international pressure for equal treatment and incr...

A readable guide to the art of looking at art. There’s an art to viewing art. A sizable portion of the population regards art with varying degrees of reverence, bewilderm...

The Program MAIS: Manifestações de Arte Integradas à Saúde, initiated in 2007 at ‘Hospital das Clínicas (HC) – Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE)’, is an art therapeutic ori...

Offering an authoritative account of the relationship between literature and medicine between approximately 1800 and 1900, this volume brings together leading scholars in the field...