Description: This agenda-setting volume highlights the contributions that artists and art historians can make to developments in critical medical humanities, alongside expanding the possibilities of art practice and art history.
Brief description: Stuart Murray is Professor of Contemporary Literatures and Film and Director of Leeds Centre for Medical Humanities at the University of Leeds, UK. He is also the current Chair of the Wellcome Trust's Medical Humanities Expert Review Group. Stuart is the author of Disability and the Posthuman: Bodies, Technology and Cultural Futures and Autism as well as co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Disability.
Review Quotes: "An agenda-setting collection, committed to social justice and formal innovation in research, Art and the Critical Medical Humanities brings together a stimulating range of perspectives and approaches to the study of art practices and health. Anyone with an interest in art, humanities and health will surely find much of value here." --Dieter Declercq, Lecturer in Medical Humanities, University of Glasgow, UK