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Description
This text explores the use of commissioned artwork in hospitals through the dual lens of an artist and healthcare professional, identifying 15 distinct 'purposes' of art in hospitals and arguing for the need for greater variety in art offerings that serve the diverse needs of patients, families, visitors and hospital staff.
About the Author
Judy Rollins is Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Departments of Family Medicine and Pediatrics at Georgetown University, Adjunct Lecturer in the Center for Arts in Medicine at University of Florida College of Arts and a Scholar at The Institute for Integrative Health, USA. She is also the President of Rollins & Associates Research and Consulting, with nearly 40 years' experience of arts in health within hospitals, hospices, military settings and wider communities. She is a two-time winner of the American Journal of Nursing's Book of the Year Award, with her major publications including Meeting Children's Psychosocial Needs Across the Health-Care Continuum (2005, 2018) and Therapeutic Activities for Children and Teens Coping with Health Issues (2011).