Health humanities

Health humanities is an interdisciplinary field of study that draws on aspects of the arts and humanities in its approach to health care, health and well-being.^[1] It involves the application of the creative or fine arts (including visual arts, music, performing arts) and humanities disciplines (including literary studies, languages, law, history, philosophy, religion, etc.) to questions of human health and well-being.^[2] This applied capacity of the humanities is not itself a novel idea; however, the construct of the health humanities only began to emerge in the first decade of the 21st century.

^ Crawford, P. (2020) Introduction: Global health humanities and the rise of creative public health. In: The Routledge Companion to Health Humanities, eds. P. Crawford, B. Brown, & A. Charise. London: Routledge, 1-7: 3.
^ "What is Health Humanities?". SCOPE: The Health Humanities Learning Lab. 2016. Retrieved 15 September 2016.

[1] Crawford, P. (2020) Introduction: Global health humanities and the rise of creative public health. In: The Routledge Companion to Health Humanities, eds. P. Crawford, B. Brown, & A. Charise. London: Routledge, 1-7: 3.

[2] "What is Health Humanities?". SCOPE: The Health Humanities Learning Lab. 2016. Retrieved 15 September 2016.

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