The Birth Project: Using the Arts to explore birth. Interim report
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Authors | Hogan, Susan |
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Abstract | The aim of this study was to use the arts to interrogate birth discourses, to challenge embedded assumptions, and in this process, to stimulate mutual recovery between all those who experience and are affected by birth. The research questions are: • What role might arts engagement have to play in ante-natal and post-natal care? • To what extent are hospital practices, that are iatrogenic in nature, implicated in post-natal distress? • To what extent is ‘mutual recovery’ possible through engagement with the arts, and if so, to establish what form this may take? • What, in particular, does an arts-based approach offer in exploring birth experiences and the transition to motherhood? |
The aim of this study was to use the arts to interrogate birth discourses, to challenge embedded assumptions, and in this process, to | |
Keywords | Arts and health; Art therapy; Birth; Participatory arts |
Year | 2016 |
Publisher | University of Derby |
Web address (URL) | http://hdl.handle.net/10545/621116 |
hdl:10545/621116 | |
File | File Access Level Open |
File | File Access Level Open |
Publication dates | Oct 2016 |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 05 Dec 2016, 09:53 |
Contributors | University of Derby |
https://repository.derby.ac.uk/item/92580/the-birth-project-using-the-arts-to-explore-birth-interim-report
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