Wednesday, December 11, 2013

December 2013 IJCAIP Subscriber News, A year of celebration and thanks.....


 
Dear subscribers International Journal of the Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice:

Books and Reviews

This year comes to a close on a note of celebration and thanks as  I reflect on activities at  IJCAIP Journal.  Work  has  largely been devoted to our new book, Creative Arts in Humane Medicine, Brush Education, distributed by University of Toronto Press. Creative Arts in Humane Medicine has been created as a resource book for medical educators, practitioners and students who wish to learn how the arts can contribute toward a more caring and empathic approach to medicine.  Physician wellness is also an important topic as we examine the many ways the arts can play a role in addressing the health needs of physicians and other allied health professionals.  This book  is available now for  ordering in hard copy or ebook formats at the  Brush Education website.  

In editing this book I  have been privileged to work with international leaders and innovators in the field of arts and medicine, physicians and medical educators, researchers, allied health professionals and internationally renowned artists.  In my association with Brush Education  I have been fortunate over this year to collaborate with some of the best editors in the Canadian publishing industry.  

 My thanks also  extends to those IJCAIP Journal  subscribers who reviewed our book:

"Some have said that medicine, rather than being a science, is really an interactive process. It is informed by science but also dependent on psychology, sociology, philosophy, law and human creativity. McLean’s book should be a must read for those responsible for medical education...so that in the end the human connection between healers and those they heal is enhanced."

Michael Gordon MD, MSc, FRCPC -- Medical Program Director, Palliative Care, Baycrest Geriatric Health Care System; Professor of Medicine, University of Toronto

"Creative Arts in Humane Medicine takes us on a fascinating journey to meet the educators, clinicians, support workers and artists who apply arts-based methods in innovative ways to enhance patient care, reflexivity in learners and a sense of community, and well-being in practitioners. The book stands out with an emphasis on multiple media (theater, music, visual and digital imagery, literature and reflective writing), as well as the inclusion of international and interprofessional perspectives."

Allan D. Peterkin, MD, FRCPC, FCFP -- Head, Health, Arts and Humanities Program and Humanities Lead, Undergraduate Medical Education, University of Toronto

"Creative Arts in Humane Medicine is a fascinating collection of essays that evocatively illustrates the importance of literature, music, photography, and art in facilitating self-care and awareness among health care providers, training empathetic physicians, and improving patient care."

Martin Donohoe, MD, FACP -- Author of Public Health and Social Justice (2013)

"Through a collage of creative arts methods and messages, these authors illuminate the essence of the “human story of health care” as loving, healing and humanly embodied—an essential message in an era of highly institutionalized technical health care. A must read for academics, researchers, clinicians, and students interested in creative healing arts, narrative health and humane medicine, or for anyone interested in the application of reflection and curiosity, creative expression and arts-based methods to the field of healthcare."

Sue MacRae -- Registered Nurse, Clinical Ethicist, Psychotherapist

 

International Inroads, Medical Education

We have made  important new inroads internationally around our common interests in the creative arts and medicine. I had a special opportunity to present  for the American Medical Students' Association AMSA as part of their Medical Humanities Scholars' program. Aliye Runyan MD, Education and Research Fellow for AMSA, has written the forward for our book Creative Arts in Humane Medicine. She writes,  "AMSA believes it is paramount that the physician not only be a scientist but a humanist, a communicator and an advocate."

Keynotes/Medicine

I will be presenting a keynote, March 2014,  in Banff  for The Alberta Psychiatric Association conference, "Challenges of Change for our Patients and our Profession" ...the  talk, "Living Stories for Hope and Change"  will examine how the creative arts, lived and embodied through drama and story, can lead to personal discovery, healing and change for the practitioner.  A breakout session will follow with an active group opportunity to embody, remember, write and perform a " living story"/narrative.   More keynote information here:

IJCAIP Subscribers List/Notice

We have updated and revamped our computer system here at the office and this has affected our IJCAIP subscriber mailing list.  Please let us know if you have received this message in error, or if you would like to be removed at this time from our mailing list with a quick email to CherylMcLean@ijcaip.com with "please unsubscribe" in the subject line.    If you have friends or colleagues who would like to subscribe to IJCAIP Journal send an email to CherylMcLean@ijcaip.com "please subscribe".  We welcome new subscribers and there is no membership or subscriber fees.

IJCAIP   still offers subscribers  free access to full text articles and our journal archive at the website at http://www.ijcaip.com.  Be sure to visit the IJCAIP blog  Arts Crossing Borders accessible by pressing the blog tab at the top of the website.  Here you can search the blog for hundreds of articles related to the creative arts in action and practice across disciplines.   For those interested in arts and health you might also  want to visit the Creative Arts in Humane Medicine book blog website where you'll find many other links, articles and videos related to the topic of arts and medicine. 

FYI  IJCAIP subscribers  receive about 4 - 6 notices a yr. with important inside news, events, announcements, book news, calls for papers for our books and journals...

After eight years, our journey continues and I want to thank our many subscribers who have supported us at IJCAIP....a vital web based  academic and professional community with common interests in the creative arts in interdisciplinary research, education and practice.   Please feel free to contact me, your feedback or comments would be most welcomed.

Respectfully,


Editor CAIP Research Series, CherylMcLean@ijcaip.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

Saturday, October 5, 2013

Advance Reviews Creative Arts in Humane Medicine October 2013


October 5, 2013

We are pleased to share with you the following advance reviews for the book, "Creative Arts in Humane Medicine". 


Cheryl McLean's Creative Arts in Humane Medicine is a fascinating collection of essays that evocatively illustrates the importance of literature, music, photography, and art in facilitating self-care and awareness among health care providers, training empathetic physicians, and improving patient care.


Martin Donohoe, MD, FACP -- Author of Public Health and Social Justice (2013)

Creative Arts in Humane Medicine is a graceful and important book that offers a groundbreaking, inspiriting engagement with issues such as empathy, empowerment, ethics and evidence, explored by a rich cast of inter-professional authors such as artists, educators, clinicians, and researchers. Through a collage of creative arts methods and messages, these authors illuminate the essence of the “human story of health care” as loving, healing and humanly embodied—an essential message in an era of highly institutionalized technical health care. A must read for academics, researchers, clinicians, and students interested in creative healing arts, narrative health and humane medicine, or for anyone interested in the application of reflection and curiosity, creative expression and arts-based methods to the field of healthcare.

Sue MacRae -- Registered Nurse, Clinical Ethicist, Psychotherapist, Former Deputy Director, University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics

Some have said that medicine, rather than being a science, is really an interactive process. It is informed by science but also dependent on psychology, sociology, philosophy, law and human creativity. McLean’s book should be a must read for those responsible for medical education...so that in the end the human connection between healers and those they heal is enhanced.

Michael Gordon MD, MSc, FRCPC -- Medical Program Director, Palliative Care, Baycrest Geriatric Health Care System; Professor of Medicine, University of Toronto

Creative Arts in Humane Medicine takes us on a fascinating journey to meet the educators, clinicians, support workers and artists who apply arts-based methods in innovative ways to enhance patient care, reflexivity in learners and a sense of community, and well-being in practitioners. The book stands out with an emphasis on multiple media (theater, music, visual and digital imagery, literature and reflective writing), as well as the inclusion of international and interprofessional perspectives.

Allan D. Peterkin, MD, FRCPC, FCFP -- Head, Health, Arts and Humanities Program and Humanities Lead, Undergraduate Medical Education, University of Toronto

Monday, September 2, 2013

Creative Works Studio featured in.. What's Art Got to Do With It? Film


 

The Creative Works Studio is an occupational therapy arts based community program at St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto, Ontario, that helps individuals living with mental health challenges heal and cope through the power of artistic expression. It is part of the Inner City Health Program and operates in partnership with the Good Shepherd.

Their Mission is to provide a community based creative arts studio that offers a safe and accepting place of healing for people marginalized by the challenges of living with severe and persistent mental illness or addictions.

The healing process is based on the integration of the principles of occupational therapy, mental health, primary care, visual arts and vocational counseling.  The studio supports members on a self-guided journey to self- expression through art, greater self esteem, improved confidence and eventually increased participation with the larger community.

 What’s Art Got to Do With It?, Isabel Fryszberg and Parsons’ documentary film about the Creative Works program at St. Michael's Hospital  takes viewers inside the world of mental illness, homelessness, addiction and recovery. The film features five people who, despite their unique challenges, find fulfilment and celebration in art.

 “Our participants agreed to let us film their experiences and were surprised to find that the filming was a healing experience in itself,” said Isabel Fryszberg, the film’s director. “Hiding yourself from the world takes a tremendous amount of energy. So putting yourself out there like that can be very freeing.”

Fifty minutes in length, the film has been a labour of love for Fryszberg, Parsons, Marlena Zuber (studio assistant) and the project participants for the past several years. It’s also the product of a Canadian Institutes of Health Research dissemination grant to share research knowledge and innovative practice.

“We’re excited about promoting the studio through this film, but we’re also excited about this idea of documentary filmmaking as a knowledge translation tool,” said Isabel Fryszberg creative lead at the Creative Works Programme.


What’s Art Got To Do With It?


Tuesday, October 1st, 2013 at 6pm at the TIFF Bell Lightbox
There will be an address from Chair of the Bell Let's Talk mental health initiative, Mary Deacon,
a Q & A session, and a reception to follow.

 To see film trailer click here!
 

Tuesday, July 23, 2013

Touching the Heart of What it is to be Human




Press Release, 
July 21, 2013
International Journal of the Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice


Creative Arts in Humane Medicine 
Book touches the heart of what it is to be human
Cheryl L. McLean
Creative Arts in Humane Medicine, Editor, Cheryl L. McLean, Published by Brush Education, and distributed by The University of Toronto Press,  is a resource book for medical educators, practitioners and students as well as those in the allied health professions who wish to learn how the arts can contribute toward a more caring and empathic approach to medicine.  
In this collection, which features the latest research and real life examples, physicians, medical educators, researchers and allied health professionals, as well as medical students, residents, artists and others across Canada, the United States, United Kingdom and Australia show how the arts in action can contribute toward humane medicine.
To be humane is to show empathy or understanding and to care about the condition and suffering of others, to treat others as we ourselves might wish to be treated.  The word medicine itself is from the Latin “ars medicina” refers to the art of healing, the practice invested in the treatment and prevention of illness. Humanistic Medicine is a growing trend today as more medical professionals integrate the arts into their practice to improve communication with their patients and build better relationships.  A recent study found that over half of all medical schools in The United States  involved the arts in some form in learning activities(Rodenhauser, Strickland, & Gambala).This survey showed that the arts are used to foster student well-being, enhance teaching and learning, and improve clinical and relational skills,for example, observation and diagnostic skills, reflection and insight.
There are other encouraging signs that the arts are alive and thriving in medical education today with programs integrating the arts and humanities into medical education and leading medical schools and universities offering more programming to promote creative and scholarly work at the intersections of the arts, humanities and medicine.  One Canadian effort, the Medical Humanities HEALS Program at The Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, offers programming in visual parts, performing arts, the history of medicine and creative writing.  Another, The Arts and Humanities in Health and Medicine Program at The Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry at The University of Alberta,  launched in May 2006,  has a mandate to balance scientific knowledge and compassionate care.  Its mission statement formally acknowledges “the explicit recognition within the Faculty that clinical practice is both an art and a science”.  At The University of Toronto, the Undergraduate Medical Education (UME) program,  has begun to integrate different types of narrative systematically into the curriculum with a new companion curriculum.
At Yale School of Medicine, The Yale Medical Humanities and the Arts Council reports it is committed to fostering the use of the humanities, social sciences, and the arts as a lens for examining issues in health, medicine, and healing. Arts and Humanities at Harvard Medical School aim to promote the role of the humanities in medical education, clinical care and research. Stanford School of Medicine, Arts, Humanities and Medicine, has been established to promote creative and scholarly work at the intersections between the arts, humanities and medicine.
And there is growing support for the creative arts in humane medicine today coming from the medical students themselves.  The AMSA (American Medical Students' Association)  has over 150 chapters in medical schools across the United States and an estimated  350 pre-med chapters. Aliye Runyan M.D.,  Education and Research Fellow, American Medical Student Association, reports , The AMSA  Medical Humanities Scholars' Program exposes students to lead faculty in narrative medicine, humanities and the arts as they explore reflective capacity, communication, self care and the art of listening to their patients' stories.  "AMSA,"  Runyan writes, “believes it is paramount that the physician not only be a scientist but a humanist, a communicator and an advocate.”
I was recently a guest presenter for a webinar for The American Medical Student Association’s Medical Humanities Scholars’ Program.  During the session a student asked, “If this work (about the creative arts in medicine) is frequently about empathy and feeling the human story, how much empathy is too much empathy?  What if I can no longer bear it?” The student asked me a very difficult question, one not easy to answer.  Our creative work is powerful and profound in the way it frequently uses all the senses to foster empathy and  draw us closer to human understanding, but what are our human limits?  If I were in bed, ill and fighting for life, I asked myself, how much empathy would I hope my caregivers would extend to me?  When would enough be enough?   This collection raises provocative questions and proposes alternative approaches  in the hopes of inspiring new areas of investigation while opening up a larger conversation about the creative arts in medicine among students and medical practitioners.
The book, Creative Arts in Humane Medicine has been divided into four distinct and related sections.  Section 1, “Educating for Empathy through the Arts”; Section 2, "The Arts in Medicine and Practitioner Self Care" ; Section 3, "Navigating with Narrative Through Life Experience" ; and Section 4," The Creative Arts in Action for Change in Health".
Section l,  Educating for Empathy through the Arts, opens with special attention paid to the overriding theme in this collection, that of care and  fostering empathy through varied arts methodologies.  We begin our book with visual art as the focus as Andre Smith and his research team at The Department of Sociology, University of Victoria, demonstrate an innovative pedagogical approach using fabric art for teaching empathy with end-of-life health care providers.  Similarly, in my own article that follows, I share the process of creating an ethnodrama to raise awareness about aging, mental health and autonomy and discuss how writing and creating a performance based on research led to greater empathy and human understanding.  In his opening essay, Craig Chen MD, an anesthesiology resident at Stanford University Medical Centre, supports the view that the arts and humanities can bring about understanding about  illness and disease.    He explains,  
 “It is not easy to go to work every day and care for people who hurt themselves, are going to die, cry on your shoulder, feel terrified or distrust the health care system…The arts and humanities, with respect to medicine, are about understanding how humans experience illness and disease and placing that within a context of diagnosis, treatment and care”.   
The section’s closing paper by researchers Mina Borromeo, Heather Gaunt and Neville Chiavaroli,  from the Melbourne Dental School, explores the visual arts used in education for increasing observational skills and understanding as students are guided through the rediscovery and re-appreciation of  human responses as it applies to  Special Needs Dentistry.
In Section 2, The Arts in Medicine and Practitioner Self Care, we examine working in medicine and the realities of  illness, disease, aging, death and after death and how the arts can offer healthy opportunities for practitioners to deal with stressful situations while  addressing  their own self care needs.  Alim Nagi MD,  who is also an actor, producer and writer, stresses that teaching people to understand their patients stories must begin early in their training before the erosion of empathy.  Nagi believes using theatre in medical education for “performative reflection” can help students delve into the character’s back stories drawing parallels between those experiences and their own.  In the article that follows, Maura McIntyre’s arts informed research, part of the growing genre of performance ethnography, offers caregivers and others an opportunity to participate in reader’s theatre so that they might experience real stories of nursing home life.  Craig Chen MD informs us about the importance of providing health professionals and others a place for self expression through varied forms of  performance.  At Stanford,  medical students had a vital opportunity for expression and community connection through performance while audiences learned more about what it is like to work in the field of anesthesiology.  In the next article, Rachael Allen, an Artist in Residence (AIR) at university anatomy and clinical skills laboratories in the North East of England, writes about her work witnessing students engaged in lab work with prepared prosections of embalmed and plastinated specimens and believes it is fundamentally important for health and humane medicine that students working in anatomy labs are offered opportunities to express these intimate human encounters through art. Allen offers new and sensory approaches to anatomy and clinical studies while artistically rendering the undergraduate experiences of medical students.  Forms of art therapy and varied modalities for healing  are also discussed.  Music therapy has long been recognized as being effective for self expression and healing and, as Amy Clements-Cortes demonstrates in her article, music therapy in many forms can also help address stress and other issues for those working in palliative care settings. In other programs expressive approaches have also proven useful for healthcare practitioners as is presented in the article by  Diane Kaufman, MD and her team at The  University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey.
Contributors present  personal stories and engage with narrative in Section 3, Navigating with Narrative Through Life Experience, as well as demonstrating  the applications of literature in medical practice.  Dr. Rita Charon, a leader in the field of narrative medicine,  has long advocated for the use of the narrative in medical education.  Each of our contributors navigate with narrative or use story in uniquely different ways, however, all writers in this section share in common an underlying belief about the humanity and dignity that can be found through fostering the practitioner patient relationship. Jasna Schwind, a nurse educator, writes about her work, informed by narrative inquiry while sharing aspects of her own illness story to demonstrate how intentional and thoughtful reflection allowed her, as both patient and caregiver, to make sense of the experience. Narrative and poetic inquirier, John J. Guiney Yallop,  writes in the article that follows, about his lived experiences over time with medical practitioners and, in so doing, poignantly illustrates the importance of the relationship between practitioner and patient.   Catherine L. Mah, MD, FRCPC, PhD a scientist, practitioner, researcher, and teacher discusses in her article the uses of literature and the childhood novel in pediatrics practice suggesting the approach  may help establish  a foundation for narrative examination in the one on one interview.
In Section 4, The Creative Arts in Action for Change in Health  we embrace change and the future opening with an exploration by Louise Younie,  a Clinical Senior Lecturer, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, who writes about her journey of discovery through arts based inquiry and considers the transformative influences of  the arts  in medical education as well as within her own work. In the next chapter Canadian activist artists Carol Conde and Karl Beveridge are featured demonstrating the arts in action for change and the power of story and photography to touch people and advocate for humanity for those  who work in healthcare settings. Bandy X. Lee MD at Yale University believes that today there is a great need for collective and emotional healing. She reports The World Health Organization has noted that health is not just the absence of disease and, in terms of change, effective violence prevention may be the key to health and human flourishing and creativity.  Louise Terry PhD PGCHE LLB illustrates how digital stories and technology can help teach ethics and law to health and social service professionals while contributing to humane medicine.   Visual and audio technologies, she suggests, help realize and bring to life our human stories complete with actions, omissions, aspirations and values.
Our chapter closes with an exhibit from the heart as medical and fine arts students from The University of British Columbia, Canada, reach out and build bridges to understanding health and the heart while connecting to communities through the visual arts.
This is an educational  book in which, through creative processes, we  feel the human story, touching the heart of what it is to be  human in others while attentively loving and caring for ourselves…not only surviving but thriving as humane practitioners in our lives and work.  I invite you, through this book  to read, to engage and to actively learn through these chapters about the creative arts in humane medicine. I believe you will find, in keeping with the embodied nature of our field, each article unfolds in its way as a story, a revealing performance about life, a creative act within itself.
The book, Creative Arts in Humane Medicine will be released in November 2013 and can be ordered through Brush Education.
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Thursday, May 30, 2013

Creative Arts in Humane Medicine a Provocative Book for Medical Educators

Educating for empathy important theme in upcoming book

Publisher,  Brush Education

A project of The International Journal of the Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice

 Upper photo "Peace of Heart" by Cyrus McEachern, from 2009 Heartfelt Images, Faculty of Medicine, UBC    Cover design:  Carol Dragich

"This book is a vital educational resource, rich with research and evidence and relevant information, yet in keeping with the embodied nature of the field each article unfolds in its way as a story, a revealing performance about life, a creative act within itself."

We would like to share with you below  a few brief excerpts from the introduction to the upcoming book, "Creative Arts in Humane Medicine"  Publisher Brush Education, Editor Cheryl L. McLean.  This book is a project of The International Journal of the Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice.  “Creative Arts in Humane Medicine is a resource for medical educators and medical students as well as those engaged in Medical Humanities, Public Health, Health Promotion, Social Work and the Social Services and the allied health professions featuring research as well as illustrative examples of the creative arts in action for humane medicine. The volume highlights contributions from physicians, medical educators and researchers, allied health professionals across Canada, the U.S., U.K. and Australia, as well as medical students, residents, artists and others advocating for change showing how the creative arts in many forms can contribute toward humane medicine.

Excerpts from Intro


Our book title, Creative Arts in Humane Medicine, deserves a brief explanation that will help orient readers to both the content and approach. Creative arts here refers to art forms such as visual arts (for example, fabric art, installations, collage, photography, painting, sketching ) drama and performance (ethnodrama, reader’s theatre, music, dance, etc.); forms of writing (narrative and poetry, monologues/playwriting); creative arts in therapy and for practitioner self care; (music therapy, drama therapy and other arts modalities)  graphic and digital arts, (digital story, cartooning and film), among others.To be humane is to show empathy or understanding , to care about the condition and suffering of others, to treat others as we ourselves might wish to be treated. The word medicine, from the Latin  ars medicina  refers to the art of healing and medicine, the practice that is invested in the prevention and treatment of illness.  
Creative Arts in Humane Medicine opens with a promise of hope. The first article, Teaching Empathy through Role-play and Fabric Art features research about fabric art and role play to teach empathy, an innovative pedagogical approach for end of life health care providers. Educating for empathy, so as to bring active and embodied learning to medical students,  Andre Smith and the research team at the Department of Sociology, University of Victoria, explore the experiences of first- and second-year medical students who participated in a progressive learning intervention that effectively cultivated empathy in the medical students who took part in the study.


I was recently a guest presenter for a webinar with medical students for The American Medical Student Association, Medical Humanities Scholars’ Program  and,  during the session,  one student asked, “If this work (about the creative arts in medicine ) is frequently about empathy and feeling the human story,  how much empathy for us  is too much empathy?  What if I can no longer bear it?”

The student asked a very difficult question, one not easy to answer.  Our creative work is powerful and profound in the way it frequently uses all of the senses to communicate and draw us closer to human understanding, but how much can we be expected to bear, what are our human limits?  Perhaps,  I thought,  if I was, for a moment, to imagine myself in bed, ill and fighting for life, how much empathy would I hope my caregivers would extend to me?  When would enough be enough?

It is true, there are times when empathic understandings may be very difficult. We engage creatively and actively in expressive and soulful learning, a visceral process, that undoubtedly affects us deeply but in turn offers a chance for release and understanding that restores us to the recuperative grounding that can bring true insight and wisdom.   Henry David Thoreau expresses the gift of empathy as miraculous.  

“Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?”   

 A leader in the field of Narrative Medicine, Dr. Rita Charon, has long advocated for the use of narrative in medical education. In Chapter 3 of this book, Navigating With Narrative Through Life Experience, both Jasna Schwind and John J. Guiney Yallop demonstrate how they have have used narrative in  different ways to increase understanding and to teach about  health, caring and life experience. Schwind, a nurse educator , writes about her work, informed by Narrative Inquiry, while sharing  aspects of her own illness story to demonstrate how intentional and thoughtful reflection allowed her, as both patient and caregiver, to make sense of the experience. Narrative and poetic inquirer, John J. Guiney Yallop, writes about his lived experiences with medical practitioners throughout his life and, in so doing, poignantly illustrates the vital importance of the relationship between practitioner and patient.



I am most pleased to introduce you to the book, Creative Arts in Humane Medicine. Featuring contributions from physicians, medical educators, researchers, allied health professionals as well as medical students, residents, therapists and artists, this action oriented collection is an educational book that is a  resource rich with evidence and relevant information, yet in keeping with the embodied nature of the field, each article unfolds in its way as a story, a revealing performance about life, a creative act within itself.

Saturday, March 16, 2013

IJCAIP Newsletter March 15, 2013

We recently sent our newsletter to our subscribers at The International Journal of the Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice IJCAIP.  To subscribe free send an email to CherylMcLean@ijcaip.com. "Please subscribe"   Why subscribe?

International Journal of the Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice IJCAIP News, March 2013
Upcoming in 2013 Creative Arts in Humane Medicine a new book published by Brush Education
editor, Cheryl L. McLean
Creative Arts in Humane Medicine is a innovative  resource book for medical educators and learners about the arts in action in education, programming   contributing toward a more caring and empathic approach to medicine and practice. This is a topical collection which features leaders active in the field as well as new international innovators and provides examples and evidence showing how the creative arts can uniquely offer new ways to learn and practice while facilitating effective communication and creative opportunities to engage in mutually respectful practice and relationship centred care.
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Saturday, March 9, 2013

Book announcement

Public Health and Social Justice
by Martin Donohoe
Jossey Bass-Wiley, 2012

Martin T. Donohoe, MD, FACP is an adjunct associate professor in Community Health at Portland State University and  practices internal medicine, and is on the Social Justice Committee of Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) and the Board of Advisors for Oregon PSR.  Donohoe has published extensively about public health issues and social justice in journals and books and at the blog Public Health and Social Justice.  He has also been  a featured contributor to The International Journal of The Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice IJCAIP, Issue 8, October, 2009,"Stories and Society Using Literature to Teach Medical Students about Public Health and Social Justice."

Endorsements for the book Public Health and Social Justice


"Public Health and Social Justice, edited by Martin T. Donohoe M.D. is a volume that values inclusivity while advocating for a movement in public health that is respectful, caring and democratic and where education can play a major role. The book, as a whole, urges us to think critically about society and the state of our healthcare system presenting challenges while also offering constructive solutions. The considerable and extraordinary breadth and scope of this collection tackles head on some of the most critical public health and social issues of our times.  Donohoe has included several of his own contributions offering insights into public health and homelessness, health and welfare in the prison system, the epidemic of obesity, factory farms, genetically modified foods, health care and environmental degradation among others. In our challenging times this groundbreaking book  advocates for human rights and dignity for all, with research and examples provided by educators and professionals active in the field, a volume supported by evidence  that  educates while leaving readers with a sense of optimism and hope that through knowledge, empowerment and increased awareness change is possible."
Cheryl McLean  Publisher, Editor, International Journal of the Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice

" In this ambitious text, Dr. Martin Donohoe intertwines literature across disciplines and genres to demonstrate economic, political, and historical etiologies of diseases that are commonly—and fatally—misconstrued as purely biological in origin. Students and professionals will find this is a useful, accessible primer on the contentious social landscapes that distribute disease unequally within and across societies. Dr. Donohoe’s compilation unifies ostensibly distant corners of our broad discipline under the common pursuit of health as an achievable, non-negotiable human right. In this reader, Dr. Donohoe endeavors beyond analysis to impart his impassioned suggestions for moving closer to the vision of health equity to which he has dedicated his admirable career."
– Paul Farmer, MD, PhD, Kolokotrones University Professor and Chair, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School; and co-founder, Partners In Health
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"This superb book is the best work yet concerning the relationships between public health and social justice. Martin Donohoe’s profound contributions to the field make him uniquely qualified as the book’s editor and as the author of several key chapters. Everyone concerned about justice in public health will find the book informative and inspirational."
Howard Waitzkin, MD, PhD, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, University of New Mexico
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“Social justice provides the passion that fuels public health. Martin Donohoe’s book gives public health professionals, researchers and advocates the essential knowledge they need to capture the energy that social justice brings to our enterprise.”
Nicholas Freudenberg, DrPH, Distinguished Professor of Public Health at the City University of New York School of Public Health at Hunter College.
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"I know of few people who have as passionate a commitment to such a broad range of social justice issues as does Martin Donohoe.  His personal concern for the human beings who suffer is always evident in his presentations at conferences, in his writing, and in the art with which he illustrates his points.  Martin’s chapters are not a theoretical view from afar but the perspective of a humanitarian practicing the art of personal medicine on a grand scale. The breadth of topics he has selected to include provide a strong overview of social justice in medicine and public health for readers new to the topic. For many long-time public health professionals, the book serves as a challenging reminder of the reasons they entered the profession. For all of us in public health, Martin’s book serves as a stimulus to stay true to our core mission: social justice."
William Wiist, DHSc, MPH, MS, Senior Scientist and Head of Office of Health & Society Studies, Interdisciplinary Health Policy Institute, Northern Arizona University
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"Martin Donohoe, MD is a renaissance man in the modern era with an amazing knowledge of the social determinants of health and the role of physician as advocate. This book is a tremendous contribution to the literature of
social justice and public health and only Dr. Donohoe’s passion for open source material via his website and his dedication to finding solutions to these problems could have ultimately brought this compendium together. This
book will be utilized in many fields because of its breadth and depth."
Catherine Thomasson, MD, Executive Director, Physicians for Social Responsibility
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“Finally, a book that wonderfully illustrates the connections between social justice and health that I can enthusiastically recommend to all health professionals who care about the fate of humanity, and to medical students who do not want to be the doctors overseeing our extinction.”
Patch Adams, Gesundheit Institute
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“A compelling and provocative collection of essays that provides an in-depth examination and critical analysis of the impact that a health system founded on principles of equity and equal opportunity can have on society’s well-being. This book will serve as an essential reference for students, teachers and practitioners in the health and human services who are committed to social responsibility.”
Shafik Dharamsi, PhD, Faculty of Medicine and Liu Institute for Global Issues, Global Health Network, University of British Columbia

Chapter  Headings:

PART I 
Human Rights, Social Justice, Economics, Poverty, and Health Care

PART Two  
Special Populations

PART Three  
Women's Health

PART Four    
Obesity, Tobacco, and Suicide by Firearms: The Modern Epidemics

PART Five  
Food: Safety, Security, and Disease

 PART Six 
Environmental Health

 PART Seven 
War and Violence

 PART Eight  
Corporations and Public Health

 PART Nine
 Achieving Social Justice in Health Care Through Education and Activism



For more information and a full table of contents visit the Public Health and  Social Justice website  
  Order the book at http://www.josseybass.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-111808814X.html

 

Sunday, January 6, 2013

Looking Back Moving Forward 2012 and 2013, IJCAIP Publisher's Report


 Publisher's Report January 6, 2013
Cheryl L. McLean

Happy New Year 2013 to all of our blog visitors at "Arts Crossing Borders".   This post will report on the  activities of IJCAIP Journal  in 2012 and moving forward in 2013.

A third book in the CAIP Series, “Creative Arts in Humane Medicine” (Publisher Brush Education) is well underway with international contributions featuring the creative arts in action in humane medicine in medical education and in healthcare.  

I have recently been invited by The American Medical Students’ Association to facilitate one of  the upcoming webinars for this year’s AMSA, Medical Humanities Scholars' program “Perceptions of Physicians in Literature and the Arts”. In March  I will lead a session around the growing diversity and vitality of the creative arts in medicine, education research and practice.  The American Medical Student Association is based in Washington and is the largest independent association of physicians in training in the United States.  Uniquely student governed, AMSA has a membership of 68,000 from across The United States.  I look forward to this opportunity to connect with students and participate in this program.

We recently started our own IJCAIP Youtube channel and video blog on Youtube which is  built around presentations and discussions about the arts in action across disciplines for hope and change.  Topics such as publishing/research/ education/books and projects  in action are discussed.  In the "likes" section of the new channel you'll find many videos that may be of interest to you around the creative arts in action and practice.   It is expected as the channel developes there will also  be video interviews and online input from academics and international leaders in the field.  The channel was started Jan. 5 and  has already welcomed many viewers and we expect it will be an excellent addition to our current international communications activities.  

 There were a number of presentations and meetings over 2012.  In early October 2012 I traveled east to deliver the keynote address at the arts based research symposium at Acadia University,Wolfville, Nova Scotia.   Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Research, A New Pond of Interdisciplinary Opportunity.”   Later in the month I headed west to attend meetings  in Vancouver with faculty  in education and medicine.

We want to thank our board for their continued support, and, as well  extend our congratulations to our board members,  Robert Kelly, IJCAIP Advisory Board, University of Calgary, for the recent release of his new book, “Educating for Creativity a Global Conversation” with Brush Education and to Nick Nissley, Cincinnati State,  for contributing to the design and launch of "Conversation Cafe" at the Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Centre where art is used  to explore new ways of thinking and to offer  an opportunity to participate in conversations around important issues.

It has been a busy year and we look ahead to bringing you more  news, articles, video, books and more information and research about our growing field.

We thank our many blog visitors, subscribers and supporters for being a part of our international community around the creative arts in interdisciplinary research and practice.

The journey continues,


Cheryl McLean, Publisher IJCAIP Journal
http://www.ijcaip.com
Meet Cheryl McLean at our new Youtube Channel