Introduction: Charting areas of the arts and health

Holt, Nicola J., Vougioukalou, Sofia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0788-0373, Tischler, Victoria and Corvo, Elisabetta 2025. Introduction: Charting areas of the arts and health. Holt, Nicola J., Tischler, Victoria, Corvo, Elisabetta and Vougioukalou, Sofia, eds. Routledge Handbook of Arts and Health, London and New York: Routledge, pp. 1-9. (10.4324/9781003429814-1)

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Abstract

The arts and health is established as a distinct academic discipline, with international journals (e.g., Arts & Health), a growing evidence base, including dissemination (e.g., a World Health Organization [WHO] scoping review), expanding practice and policy recommendations (e.g., arts in social prescribing), and specific organisations for advocacy and dissemination (e.g., National Centre for Creative Health in the United Kingdom), as well as critical analysis (International Network for the Critical Appraisal of Arts and Health Research). The aim of this Handbook was ambitious, to comprehensively chart these prodigious developments: to define the discipline of the arts and health, explain why it is important, and to survey historical developments, current practice, research, and theory. We aimed to do this with a critical perspective, and with consideration of emerging and future directions. We acknowledge the interdisciplinary and cross-cultural nature of the field and sought to reflect this in the Handbook as much as possible. We follow the definition of the arts, as described by Jennifer Baxley Lee and colleagues in this Handbook, (p. 29), as a broad range of modes (ways in which people engage, including informal, formal, live, virtual, individual, and group participation) and forms (artistic practices or disciplines with which people engage), including various ways in which people can engage with the arts as makers/creators, performers, collaborators, audiences/observers, and consumers.

Item Type:	Book Section
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Schools > Medicine Research Institutes & Centres > Centre for Trials Research (CNTRR)
Publisher:	Routledge
ISBN:	9781003429814
Last Modified:	08 Jan 2026 12:15
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/183726

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