Perspectives
This section presents opinion on aspects of arts and health practice from a range of perspectives including health service users, artists, healthcare professionals and researchers.
The artist’s point of view
Between them, Helene Hugel and Marie Brett have long and varied experience of working as artists in a range of healthcare settings. Here they consider arts and health as an arts practice and reflect upon some of the challenges of sustaining artistic vision and integrity across different projects while building meaningful relationships with partners and participants.
8 September, 2011
A social model for health
Aidan Warner, Principal Community Worker with the HSE South (Cork), argues that art and health should consider a social model of health as the context for its practice in Ireland.
6 September, 2011
Crossword – a patient’s reflection on the WHAT arts programme in the WRH Dialysis Unit
Johanna Tanner is a Dialysis patient in Waterford Regional Hospital who has been participating in the Waterford Healing Arts Trust’s arts programme since 2008. Here she talks about her experience.
19 August, 2011
Why arts and health should not be confused with arts and disability?
I suspect the reason arts and health and arts and disability are seen as being one and the same thing may be due to some peoples’ perceptions around disability primarily being a health issue.
15 May, 2011
Art in healthcare contexts: To evidence or not to evidence
Evidence-based medicine is the use of current best research in making decisions about the care of individual patients. With the delivery of arts projects within healthcare settings, there is a debate at large as to whether it is appropriate to apply an evidence-based approach to arts interventions. Catherine McCabe PhD, lecturer at Trinity College Dublin, School of Nursing and Midwifery, presents her views.
1 April, 2011
To evidence or not to evidence?
Evidence-based medicine is the use of current best research in making decisions about the care of individual patients. With the delivery of arts projects within healthcare settings, there is a debate at large as to whether it is appropriate to apply an evidence-based approach to arts interventions. Sheelagh Broderick, artist and PhD researcher, presents her views.
1 April, 2011
