All Outputs (26)

The healing and spiritual properties of music therapy at a cancer care centre (2012)
Journal Article

Background: This article explores the theme of spirituality, health, and wellbeing, in relation to an emerging body of research on the impact of music therapy in cancer care. The focus of the article is a music therapy service established as part of... Read More about The healing and spiritual properties of music therapy at a cancer care centre.

Creativity, identity and healing: Participants' accounts of music therapy in cancer care (2007)
Journal Article

This article reports on findings from a study of the accounts of people participating in music therapy as part of a programme of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in supportive cancer care. The article outlines the perceived effects of mus... Read More about Creativity, identity and healing: Participants' accounts of music therapy in cancer care.

Music and healing in cancer care: A survey of supportive care providers (2006)
Journal Article

This paper explores the role of music activity and music therapy in health care drawing on a survey of UK cancer care providers offering music interventions and music therapy. The survey examined the extent and type of music provision and explored pr... Read More about Music and healing in cancer care: A survey of supportive care providers.

From schism to continuum? The problematic relationship between expert and lay knowledge - An exploratory conceptual synthesis of two qualitative studies (2005)
Journal Article

Ideas about lay and expert knowledge increasingly underscore debates within qualitative health research. In this article, the authors develop an exploratory synthesis of two qualitative studies in which they critique the lay-expert divide, suggesting... Read More about From schism to continuum? The problematic relationship between expert and lay knowledge - An exploratory conceptual synthesis of two qualitative studies.

'The illness is part of the person': Discourses of blame, individual responsibility and individuation at a centre for spiritual healing in the North of England (2005)
Journal Article

While the growth in usage and practice of varying forms of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) continues apace, social science has increasingly turned to CAM's often individualistic approach to health and illness. CAM has been perceived as b... Read More about 'The illness is part of the person': Discourses of blame, individual responsibility and individuation at a centre for spiritual healing in the North of England.

Doctoring the spirit: Exploring the use and meaning of mimicry and parody at a healing centre in the North of England (2003)
Journal Article

The widespread increase of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in western societies has been well documented, yet biomedicine has not been significantly challenged by this resurgence. Even within the more esoteric practices such as spiritual... Read More about Doctoring the spirit: Exploring the use and meaning of mimicry and parody at a healing centre in the North of England.