Writing and Health Care: Creative and Critical Approaches

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Dr Janelle Adsit (Assistant Professor, Humboldt State University, USA) Graeme Harper (Oakland University USA)

Writing and Health Care

Creative and Critical Approaches

Dr Janelle Adsit (Assistant Professor, Humboldt State University, USA), Graeme Harper (Oakland University USA)

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Bloomsbury Academic
29 May 2025

Art techniques & principles; Creative writing & creative writing guides; Medical research; Medical sociology

Series: Approaches to Writing

How can arts-based approaches benefit patients and professionals within the health care system? Can the skills creative writers use to craft their work be applied more broadly to enhance the wellbeing of those in need of medical care?

This book offers a practical introduction to how these ideas can be employed within health care settings as treatments, to foster more empathetic and humane interactions between patients and practitioners, and to help understand the personal narratives of others. Combining aesthetic theory with practice, Writing and Health Care reflects on the role of creative expression in bettering the life and well-being of oneself and others. Touching on areas as diverse as health humanities, narrative medicine, creative therapies and transformative language arts, it introduces a range of genres including graphic medicine, illness narratives, “sick lit” and more. Foregrounding health justice and thinking with intersectional communities at the forefront, this book enables readers to write in ways that resist limited thinking, contribute to the transformation of health systems and processes, and generate works that promote forms of expression with therapeutic effects for patients and practitioners alike.

By: Dr Janelle Adsit (Assistant Professor Humboldt State University USA)
Edited by: Graeme Harper (Oakland University USA)
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 232mm, Width: 154mm, Spine: 16mm
Weight: 440g
ISBN: 9781350417083
ISBN 10: 1350417084
Series: Approaches to Writing
Pages: 296
Publication Date: 29 May 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction Part 1 - Uses of Literary Practice 1.1 Health and Aesthetics 1.2 Writing and Wellbeing 1.3 Arts in Health 1.4 Creative Therapies 1.5 Transformative Language Arts 1.6 Narrative Medicine Part 2 - Skills of Practice 2.1 Close Reading, Close Listening 2.2 Narrative Competence 2.3 Narrative Humility 2.4 Narrative Ethics 2.5 Facilitation & Design Part 3 - Craft 3.1 Self-Account and Literature of Witness 3.2 Craft of Illness Narratives 3.3 Writing Disability 3.4 Nonnarrative Approaches 3.5 Graphic Medicine 3.6 Health Justice and Activism 3.7 Example Prompts: Writing for Wellbeing Bibliography Index

Janelle Adsit is Associate Professor of Creative Writing at California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt, USA. She is editor of the anthology Critical Creative Writing; co-author of Writing Intersectional Identities; and author of Toward an Inclusive Creative Writing (Bloomsbury, 2019). She also has written a book of poems titled Unremitting Entrance (2015). In the community and with her local Hospice, Adsit co-facilitates writing workshops that address stress, pain, and grief. As an extension of these workshops, Adsit’s research is located within the fields of Arts in Health and Narrative Medicine.

Reviews for Writing and Health Care: Creative and Critical Approaches

Janelle Adsit's research offers valuable insights into the field of creative writing studies, particularly by highlighting its intersections with writing therapy, art therapy, narrative medicine, and related areas. Her work reveals the unique contributions that writing can make toward personal growth and physical and mental well-being—a dimension that is increasingly prioritized by Chinese researchers in creative writing. Adsit’s research challenges the notion of writing as an exclusive domain of ""Romantic genius,"" instead presenting it as a potential inherent in all individuals. From her findings, we can infer that the communal and urban practices of creative writing serve as transformative literary actions, fostering creativity and facilitating meaningful social engagement. * Weidong Liu, School of Humanities, Wenzhou University, China *