Writing and Health Care

Janelle Adsit is Associate Professor of Creative Writing at California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt, USA. She is editor of the anthology Critical Creative Writing; co-author of Writing Intersectional Identities; and author of Toward an Inclusive Creative Writing (Bloomsbury, 2019). She also has written a book of poems titled Unremitting Entrance (2015). In the community and with her local Hospice, Adsit co-facilitates writing workshops that address stress, pain, and grief. As an extension of these workshops, Adsit’s research is located within the fields of Arts in Health and Narrative Medicine.

Acknowledgments
A Note for Instructors: The Place of Health Care in the Creative Writing Curriculum
How to Use This Book
Introduction

Chapter 1 - Relationships Between Writing and Health
Chapter 2 - Narrative Medicine and Other Health-Related Arts
Chapter 3 - Praxis: Key Concepts & Practices
Chapter 4 - Bodies of Writing — and Writing the Body
Chapter 5 - Writing for Social Change
Chapter 6 - Considerations and Craft
Chapter 7 - Writing Groups
Chapter 8 - Pausing Here

Appendices - Additional Resources
Selected Bibliography and Reading List
Employment Opportunities at the Intersection of Arts and Health Care
Organizations to Know
Sample Syllabi
Sample Handouts

Index