The work of the Culture, Health and Wellbeing Alliance
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Magazine ArticleSource:
Mental Health Nursing Journal, Volume 39, Issue 2 (2019)Abstract:
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<p>A short introduction to the role of culture and creativity in supporting mental health, and the related work of the <a href="http://culturehealthandwellbeing.org.uk">Culture, Health and Wellbeing Alliance</a></p>

Medical Humanities in Africa
WISER is working to establish the field of medical humanities in South Africa with other partners at Wits and in the region. Medical Humanities took root in the interdisciplinary spaces between social history of medicine, medical sociology, medical anthropology, literary studies, art and film studies, cultural studies, politics, philosophy, legal studies, public health, psychiatry, medical economics and medical ethics. Although initially concerned with contrasting and comparing approaches from the humanities and medical science to themes of health, suffering, therapy, pain and illness, it has grown in ambition to consider the foundational question of what it is to be fully human, inviting debate around vital epistemological problems. The interface of medicine and humanities also demands a broadly interdisciplinary discussion about what constitutes evidence, and this is critical in the formulation of all contemporary political arguments, including health policies.