Creating Care: Art and Medicine in US Hospitals

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Creating Care: Art and Medicine in US Hospitals is an ethnographic study of the creative, expressive, and art-making activities occurring in hospitals across the United States. Marlaine Figueroa Gray explores how art programming intersects with medical care in US hospitals, sharing the insights of those who facilitate, participate, and support these creative activities as well as the objectives, values, and functions of these offerings. Gray illustrates how hospital creative arts programs model care that includes both those in need of healing and those who heal.

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In contemporary medicine, the power of art and poetry to heal has only recently become a subject of scholarly investigation. Marlaine Figueroa Grays masterful study, Creating Medicine, breaks new ground in exploring the concept and practice of art therapy in American hospitals. Her book is a seminal work in understanding the therapeutic value of creative art.

-- Jack Coulehan, Stony Brook University, author of The Talking Cure

Creating Medicine offers an insightful and rich exploration of the relationship between the arts and medicine from an anthropological perspective. It's a valuable contribution to the arts in health field, and a genuine pleasure to read.

-- Patricia Dewey Lambert, University of Oregon and Chair of the Professionalization Committee, National Organization for Arts in Health

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Marlaine Figueroa Gray is medical anthropologist at Kaiser Permanente Washington Research Institute and affiliate professor at the University of Washington.