This open access book offers an overview of the beautiful, powerful, and dynamic array of opportunities to promote health through the arts from theoretical, met

Over the past two decades, there has been a major increase in research into the effects of the arts on health and well-being, alongside developments in practice

This book is about redefining the value to health of creativity. Creativity derives from biological changes during human evolution as a tool that is needed for

Over the past few decades, the use of the arts in health has blossomed. What, for many centuries, was seen as a fringe activity is now being recognised as a fie

This book considers how and why the field of arts development in community health has come about, the characteristics of its practice and the challenges it pose