Forsooth! An Exploration into Living History

Pahl, Ronald H.

doi:10.1080/00377996.1994.10118775

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“…One way of delineating arts and health activity in clinical contexts – where health is understood as medical healing, and activity in non-clinical contexts – for example in community settings, is some authors’ specification that the latter form of arts and health work is underpinned by a social health paradigm. The body of social research on health inequalities (Marmot, 2005; Marmot, 2010; Marmot, Friel, Bell, Houweling, & Taylor, 2008; Marmot, Wilkinson, & Brunner, 2006; Pahl, 1999; Singh-Manoux, Adler, & Marmot, 2003; Wilkinson & Marmot, 2003; Wilson, 1975), though it rarely mentions arts and health strategies to tackle health inequalities itself, is regularly drawn upon in the key arts and health literature (Clift, Camic, & Daykin, 2010a; Matarasso, 1997; Putland, 2008; White, 2009). The social paradigm sees health more broadly, relating to the whole circumstances of people and communities.…”

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A hole in the heart: Confronting the drive for evidence-based impact research in arts and health

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The field of arts and health, and associated academic discussion, is beset by a number of interlinked challenges which make it vulnerable to academic dismissal or, at best, poor visibility. One of these is a preoccupation with developing an evidence base of impact. This is compounded by resistance to definitions, disagreement over what constitutes appropriate evidence of success, and inadequate consideration of the mechanisms of arts and health practice, as opposed to outcomes. We argue that increased attention should be paid to the description, analysis and theorising of the practice itself as the basis upon which the findings of impact studies can be understood and accepted. A literature review identifies some important emerging themes in community arts and health practice, and some lacunae in need of further investigation. We conclude that an interdisciplinary theoretical framework for the practice could make a valuable contribution to the academic status of the field.

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