Music and Creativity in Healthcare Settings

<p>Through a series of vivid case studies <i>Music and Creativity in Healthcare Settings: Does Music Matter?</i> documents the ways in which music brings humanity to sterile healthcare spaces and its significance for people dealing with major illness. It also considers the notion of the arts as a vessel to explore humanitarian questions surrounding serious illness namely what it is to be human. Overarching themes include: taking control; security and safety; listening; the normalization of the environment; being an individual; expressing emotion; transcendence and hope and expressing the inexpressible. </p><p>With an emphasis on service user narratives chapters are enriched with examples of good practice using music in healthcare. Furthermore a focus on aesthetic deprivation contributes to debates on the intrinsic and instrumental value of music and the arts in modern society. This concise study will be a valuable source of inspiration for care givers and service users in the health sector; it will also appeal to scholars and researchers in the areas of Music medicine and music Therapy and the Medical Humanities.</p>