Wita Szulc

Arts in medicine from antiquity to postmodernity

Contents

Foreword
Introduction

1. Pictures of diseases and their treatment in belles-lettres within the space of history
2. Holistic approach to health and illness
3. Ancient origin of the therapy trough art
4. Health as a creative effort and the aim of arts therapy
5. Music medicine. Curative sounds
6. Music therapy in border moments of life Pain of birth and anxiety of old age
7. Music medicine - Music therapy - Dramatherapy and voice
8. Art therapy between medicine and education
9. Following Odys or narrative therapy
10.Pleasure of reminiscences. Reminiscence therapy
11.How to state the therapeutic effect of art.? Some metodological questions
12.Postmodernity - time of change in the concept of medicine, health care and arts therapies
13.Educational dimension of "Arts in medicine"

Post scriptum

Arts in medicine from antiquity to postmodernity
Summary

This volume is a continuation of consideration includet in author's previous books titled: "Art. and Therapy" (1993) and "Culture Therapy. The use of arts and cultural-educational activities in medical care" (1994). The main task of the book is to present a broad panorama of views on application of arts in medicine.
The book narrative is organised around three concepts:

- necessity of holistic approach to treatment and edcation,
- healing power of art.,
- health as performance and creative effort.

The book consists of the Foreword, The Introduction, thirteen chapters and Post scriptum.

The first chapter includet varius descriptions of diseases and its treatment derived from belles-lettres. The aim of the chapter is to make of physicians more sensitive to patient emotions, pain, anxiety and suffering. In the second and third chapters I consider the holistic model of medicine and its ancient origin, especially the history of the famous asklepieion in Epidauros. The forth chapter is devoted to analysis of health concepts. Regarding the performance metaphor model of health we could indeed ask if the model actually consists of metaphoric terms, or if the terms reflect the nature of therapeutic relationship or core characteristics in basic form of well-being and illness.

The fifth, sixth and seventh chapters refer direclty to music therapy, its application in obstetric ward and in gerontology; diffrences between music therapy and music medicine. Next, the author analyses the art. therapy as a method of treatment and education of children with special needs.

In the last part of the book there is an emphasis on a problem of application of old methods in new kind of therapy: narrative therapy and reminiscence therapy.

The chapter twelve will shed light upon the application of postmodern theories in the field of science and arts. It is focused on a paradigmatic shift of attention in theories concerning the methodology of research in medicine, health sciences and the therapy.

Educational dimension of "Arts in medicine" as a subject in curriculum on Medical Faculty is discussed in the chapter thirteenth.

The Post scriptum refers to the Introduction and presents personal author's atitude to medicine connected with arts.