Art-Medicine Collaborative Practice

Transforming the Experience of Head and Neck Cancer

Edited by Pamela Brett-MacLean & Lianne McTavish
Categories: Art & Performance Studies, Art, Science, Technology & Society
Publisher: University of Alberta Press
Paperback : 9781772124156, 96 pages, August 2019
Ebook (PDF) : 9781772124781, 96 pages, October 2019

Table of contents

Foreword
The “see me, hear me, heal me” Project / Minn N. Yoon

Preface
Before the Beginning…and Then / Leslie O’Connor-Parsons

Introduction
Expanding Relational Possibilities Through Collaborative Streams of Inquiry and Dialogue / Pamela Brett-Maclean

In FLUX

FLUX 1
A Curatorial Introduction / Lianne McTavish
Bradley Necyk
Jude Griebel

A (High Wire) Dance / Suresh Nayar & Bernie Krewski
Jill Ho-You
Heather Huston

Feeding New Selves / Helen Vallianatos
Sean Caulfield
Ingrid Bachmann
When Design Meets Real Life / Bahaa Harmouche
Healing in the Most Unexpected Ways / Kimberly Flowers
“see me, hear me, heal me” Video Documentation / Kyle Terrance

Afterword
The “see me, hear me, heal me” Project as Research-Creation for Social Change
Pamela Brett-Maclean & Minn N. Yoon

Project Timeline
Minn N. Yoon & Pamela Brett-Maclean

Contributors

Description

Through a fusion of personal experience and art, the contributors help us understand the lived realities of individuals with head and neck cancer. Featuring original art from Ingrid Bachmann, Sean Caulfield, Jude Griebel, Jill Ho-You, Heather Huston, and Bradley Necyk, this collaborative, interdisciplinary exploration draws together the voices of patients, health care practitioners, researchers, and artists to offer a more holistic—more human—understanding of cancer treatment and its aftermath. Art–Medicine Collaborative Practice will resonate with people with head or neck cancer as well as medical practitioners who aid in their healing process. It is an important book for all those in the health professions and medical humanities, as well as artists, arts-based researchers, and those interested in the areas of health and visual communication and knowledge translation.

Contributors: Ingrid Bachmann, Pamela Brett-MacLean, Sean Caulfield, Kimberly Flowers, Jude Griebel, Bahaa Harmouche, Jill Ho-You, Heather Huston, Bernie Krewski, Lianne McTavish, Suresh Nayar, Bradley Necyk, Leslie O’Connor-Parsons, Kyle Terrence, Helen Vallianatos, Minn N. Yoon

Reviews

"The contributors raise fundamental questions—of identity, speaking with others, and eating—and present these issues vividly. Readers will learn from both the participants’ experience and the artists’ creativity."

- Celeste Condit, Distinguished Research Professor, University of Georgia

"Brett-MacLean and McTavish present a multidimensional view of this area of medical care with creativity and depth."

- Martin Kohn, PhD, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine