BOOK REVIEW: Health Humanities and Applied Literature Paul Crawford, et al., Health Humanities. Palgrave Macmillan, UK, 2015. Pp. 208. ISBN 978–1–137–28260–6 paperback (Retrieved from http://booksc.org/book/36004561/5e41f0)

Health Humanities written by Paul Crawford, Brian Brown, Charley Baker, Victoria Tischler, and Brian Adams was first published in 2015 by Palgrave Macmillan, UK. The book is a result of many years of experience of work in the field and comes at a right time after the successful organisation of some international conferences on health humanities by Professor Paul Crawford, et al. in the preceding years. Structurally, it includes the following chapters: 1) Health Humanities , 2) Anthropology and the Study of Culture , 3) Applied Literature , 4) Narrative and Applied Linguistics , 5) Performing Arts and the Aesthetics of Health , 6) Visual Art and Transformation , 7) Practice Based Evidence: Delivering Humanities into Healthcare , 8) Creative Practice as Mutual Recovery , and finally Concluding Remarks . The book also contains, amongst other things, three important entries: List of Figures and Tables , References , and an Index , which add to the attraction of the book and make it an authentic read. In the Acknowledgements section of the book, the authors thank many health-related organisations in the UK, specially the Creative Practice as Mutual Recovery consortium for practically helping them with their Mutual Recovery , a subject that has duly and frequently been dealt with in chapter eight.In the first chapter, the authors make a distinction between two key terms: medical humanities and health humanities . The former focuses on the traditional marriage between Medicine and Humanities. The latter touches upon the appliedness (1) of arts and humanities in health, healthcare, and well-being, when the works and mutual services of doctors, nurses, hospital staff, informal carers, caretakers, care workers, caregivers, and patients and care receivers are taken into consideration. In comparison with medical humanities, health humanities is a superordinate term (19). Apart from hospitals and clinics, other places such as schools , prisons , private homes, and community settings are thought of as locations in which arts and humanities can be applied to healthcare (19).