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Collaborations in art and medicine: institutional critique, patient participation, and emerging entanglements

Johnstone, Fiona

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Collaborations between artists and clinicians or biomedical researchers have become increasingly common in recent decades, and now constitute a distinctive category of art-science collaboration. This article reflects on the intellectual and material conditions of such collaborations, exploring two genealogies for these practices – “sciart” and arts and health – and paying attention to two key areas: 1) the need for stakeholders to recognise fine art practice as research and knowledge-production (rather than merely illustrative, educational or therapeutic); 2) the challenges and opportunities presented by patient-participant involvement. Finally, it explores critical medical humanities as an emergent framework currently shaping these kinds of collaborations.

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Johnstone, F. (online). Collaborations in art and medicine: institutional critique, patient participation, and emerging entanglements. Leonardo, 56(4), 424-429. https://doi.org/10.1162/leon_a_02409

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Apr 20, 2023
Online Publication Date May 25, 2023
Deposit Date Apr 26, 2023
Publicly Available Date Apr 26, 2023
Journal Leonardo
Print ISSN 0024-094X
Electronic ISSN 1530-9282
Publisher Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 56
Issue 4
Pages 424-429
DOI https://doi.org/10.1162/leon_a_02409
Public URL https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1175738

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This is the author’s final version and that the article has been accepted for publication in Leonardo.

This research was funded in whole, or in part, by the Wellcome Trust [Grant number 221747/Z/20/Z]. For open access, the author has applied a CC BY public copyright license to any Author Accepted Manuscript version arising from this submission.






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