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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.

Open futures, human finitude (2013)
Book Chapter
Evans, M. (2013). Open futures, human finitude. In J. Gordon, J. MacNaughton, & C. Rudebeck (Eds.), Medical humanities companion : prognosis (105-120). Radcliffe Publishing

‘Looking forward’ is an ambiguous state in which to find oneself, as ambiguous as that future reality of which the looking-forward is a presentiment. Anticipation can be eager and excited (cats are said to enjoy the prospect of food as much as the fo... Read More about Open futures, human finitude.

Wonderful treatment (2013)
Book Chapter
Evans, M. (2013). Wonderful treatment. In P. Louhiala, I. Heath, & J. Saunders (Eds.), Medical humanities companion : treatment (17-32). Radcliffe Publishing

A friend of mine once had the misfortune to suffer acute appendicitis and be admitted to hospital for emergency surgery. The operation was uneventful and wholly successful, my friend recovered in a manner and at a rate that was typical for his age (h... Read More about Wonderful treatment.

Transfigurings: Beauty, wonder and the noumenal (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Evans, H. (2012, June). Transfigurings: Beauty, wonder and the noumenal. Paper presented at Transfigurings : the world, wonder and beauty., Durham, England

Encounter (1) The ash tree at twilight – an epiphany explored. I was simply standing in the garden one evening looking at the late spring sky above me, through the canopy of a large ash tree whose every leaf and twig was picked out in black against t... Read More about Transfigurings: Beauty, wonder and the noumenal.

Wonder and the clinical encounter (2012)
Journal Article
Evans, H. (2012). Wonder and the clinical encounter. Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, 33(2), 123-136. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11017-012-9214-4

In terms of intervening in embodied experience, medical treatment is wonder-ful in its ambition and its metaphysical presumption; yet wonder’s role in clinical medicine has received little philosophical attention. In this paper I propose the value, t... Read More about Wonder and the clinical encounter.

Travelling Companions: ethics and humanities in medicine (2011)
Journal Article
Evans, H. (2011). Travelling Companions: ethics and humanities in medicine. Bioethica Forum (Schwabe, Online), 4(4), 129-134

The question of whether medicine is essentially a technical science, or rather an existential practice with a centrally ethical task, is one of the mainsprings of the field of enquiry known as «medical humanities», in which ethical and other question... Read More about Travelling Companions: ethics and humanities in medicine.

Cool Intimacies of Care for Contemporary Clinical Practice (2010)
Journal Article
Atkinson, S., Macnaughton, J., Saunders, C., & Evans, M. (2010). Cool Intimacies of Care for Contemporary Clinical Practice. The Lancet, 376(9754), 1732-1733. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736%2810%2962123-x

The practices of medicine across history and culture illuminate the centrality of the physical intimacy of touch in the expression of the healer's care. Yet much of modern western medicine diminishes the value of intimacy in the expertise of the clin... Read More about Cool Intimacies of Care for Contemporary Clinical Practice.

Intimacy and distance in the clinical examination (2010)
Book Chapter
Evans, H., & Macnaughton, J. (2010). Intimacy and distance in the clinical examination. In R. Ahlzen, M. Evans, P. Louhiala, & R. Puustinen (Eds.), Medical humanities companion (89-107). Radcliffe Publishing

Music Interrupted: an illness observed from within (2008)
Book Chapter
Evans, H. (2008). Music Interrupted: an illness observed from within. In M. Evans, R. Ahlzén, I. Heath, & J. Macnaughton (Eds.), Medical humanities companion ; symptom (14-26). Radcliffe Publishing