Key literature

What is the evidence on the role of the arts in improving health and well-being? A scoping review (2019)

Creative Health: The Arts for Health and Wellbeing

National Centre for Creative Health

• Haidet P, Jarecke J, Adams NE, Stuckey HL, Green MJ, Shapiro D, et al. A guiding framework to maximise the power of the arts in medical education: a systematic review and metasynthesis. Med Educ. 2016;50(3):320-31.

• Kumagai AK. Perspective: Acts of Interpretation: A Philosophical Approach to Using Creative Arts in Medical Education. Academic Medicine. 2012;87(8):1138-44.

• Shapiro J. The Inner World of Medical Students, Listening to Their Voices in Poetry. New York: Radcliffe Publishing; 2009.

• Charon R. Narrative Medicine: Form, Function, and Ethics. Annals of Internal Medicine. 2001;134(1):83-7.

• Coulehan J. Metaphor and medicine: narrative in clinical practice. Yale J Biol Med. 2003;76(2):87-95

• Brown MEL, Younie L. How creative enquiry can help educators develop learners' person-centredness. Med Educ. 2022;56(6):599-601.

• Younie L. What does creative enquiry have to contribute to flourishing in medical education? In: Murray E, Brown J, editors. The mental health and wellbeing of healthcare practitioners: research and practice: Wiley-Blackwell; 2021.