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Item Embargo Health Humanities(Palgrave, 2015) Crawford, Paul; Brown, Brian J.; Baker, Charley; Tischler, Victoria; Abrams, B.Health Humanities: Beyond the medical humanities There is a growing need for a new kind of debate at the intersection of the humanities and health care. In the recent past the field of medical humanities has grown rapidly, but it is timely and appropriate to address the increasing and broadening demand from other professions to become involved, and to accommodate new sectors of the healthcare workforce. There are important cohorts of personnel in health care, a whole army of ancillary workers, as well as informal carers and patients themselves who have been largely left out of the medical humanities so far. Moreover, as different disciplines come to value the contribution made by the arts and humanities and new opportunities emerge in health for the development and inclusion of new approaches in the humanities, it is important that this expansion and debate is given voice and new fora are created for these new developments. The so-called medical humanities were the first on the scene in this field, and have developed strongly in the Anglophone world. But the time has now come for a more inclusive and international capture of material as other disciplines and different nations develop their own distinctive practice and theory. The expansion of the field therefore merits a new publication aiming to give a flavour of the full range of health care activities and the newly discovered relationships between these and the humanities themselves.