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Music in body and imagination (2018)
Book Chapter
Evans, H. (2018). Music in body and imagination. In Y. Kim, & S. Gilman (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of music and the body. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190636234.013.12

Music is widely thought to have therapeutic possibilities. The predominant attempts to understand music-as-therapy focus on “how it works.”. This readily leads to reductionist accounts that appear to leave out an understanding of musical experience—a... Read More about Music in body and imagination.

Building characters, sharpening minds: the values and virtues of the collegiate way (2016)
Book Chapter
Burt, T., & Evans, H. (2016). Building characters, sharpening minds: the values and virtues of the collegiate way. In H. Evans, & T. Burt (Eds.), The collegiate way : university education in a collegiate context (75-92). Sense Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-681-1_7

Last weekend, 11 years on from graduation, I returned to Durham for a friend’s bachelor’s party. Three of the group present, including the ‘stag’ himself, had been students at Hatfield and there was a natural draw to stay in the college. As you can i... Read More about Building characters, sharpening minds: the values and virtues of the collegiate way.

Introduction (2016)
Book Chapter
Evans, H., & Burt, T. (2016). Introduction. In H. Evans, & T. Burt (Eds.), The collegiate way : university education in a collegiate context (xi-xvi). Sense Publishers

Epilogue (2016)
Book Chapter
Burt, T., & Evans, H. (2016). Epilogue. In H. Evans, & T. Burt (Eds.), The collegiate way : university education in a collegiate context (161-165). Sense Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-681-1_14

Establishing and maintaining colleges needs no justification to those who have experience of them – but all who work within collegiate systems are familiar with the need to be able to articulate their benefits, and to show how these justify the addit... Read More about Epilogue.

Medical Humanities and the Place of Wonder (2016)
Book Chapter
Evans, H. (2016). Medical Humanities and the Place of Wonder. In A. Whitehead, & A. Woods (Eds.), The Edinburgh companion to the critical medical humanities (339-355). Edinburgh University Press

It will be the argument of this chapter that, among the critiques that could be thought to contribute to a critical medical humanities, at least one may turn out to bear upon an important – but generally tacit – presumption in mainstream medical huma... Read More about Medical Humanities and the Place of Wonder.

Medicine, the body and an invitation to wonder (2016)
Journal Article
Evans, H. (2016). Medicine, the body and an invitation to wonder. Medical Humanities, 42(2), 97-102. https://doi.org/10.1136/medhum-2015-010826

There is, I think, a resonance between being a patient and having a greater sense of wonder at things in the world around us: a sense of wonder at things that become, briefly and intermittently, intensely and newly present. As with experiences of art... Read More about Medicine, the body and an invitation to wonder.