When was arts in health? : a history of the present / Frances Williams.
Williams, Frances, author.
2023
RC489.A72
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Title When was arts in health? : a history of the present / Frances Williams.
Author Williams, Frances, author.
ISBN 9789811936173 (electronic bk.)
981193617X (electronic bk.)
9789811936166
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-3617-3
Published Singapore : Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xi, 154 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-981-19-3617-3 doi
Call Number RC489.A72
Dewey Decimal Classification 616.891656
Summary 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 the hopeful assertion for creative health against a darker backdrop of covid nationalism and runaway inequality. Understandings of the field as a (multi)national phenomenon are examined through contested narratives that surround its origin. Using genealogical methods, Williams shows how at supra, national and local policy levels, Arts in Health is presented as an idea that transcends place and time. Arguing against this premise, post-war decades are examined to reveal hidden, mutable arts-health expressions. Examples of practice, and their recognition as such, are context dependent it is concluded, produced by political economies as well as oppositional social movements. Dr Frances Williams gained a doctoral scholarship at Manchester Metropolitan University where she studied Arts in Health in relation to devolution (2016-2019). She brings long experience of working in this field as education manager and curator, teaching MA (Arts in Health) at Glyndwr University where she is Honorary Research Fellow.
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Intro
Acknowledgements
Contents
List of Figures
Chapter 1: Who Calls Time?
Creative Health
Health Crisis, Culture War
Mysterious Origins
Wales and Northern England
Organisation of Chapters
Chapter 2: Dreamers, Sufferers, Builders
What's in a Name?
Socialist Values
Austerity Then and Now
Designs on Living
Low Morale, High Art
Chapter 3: Organisers, Survivors, Healers
Critiques of Medicine
Crosscurrents, Undercurrents
Weeds and Other Misfits
Victories and Defeats
Chapter 4: Missionaries, Parasites, Mitigators

Closures and Openings
A Declaration of Intent
The Stuff of Dreams
Culture Vultures
Deeper Cuts
Coda: Creative Health
Chapter 5: Temporalities
Chapter Summary
Analysis: The Long 90s?
Ground Lost
The (Mis)placing of the North
Workplace Settings
Implications for Future Research
References
Index

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