When Was Arts in Health?: A History of the Present

by Frances Williams

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 work by an All-Party Parliamentary Group: "creative health". Williams sets this hopeful assertion against a darker backdrop of austerity, rising inequality and "Covid-nationalism". Understandings of the field as a (multi)national phenomenon are examined through...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9811936161
• ISBN13: 9789811936166
• Release Date: March 2023
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 154 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.8" x 8.3"