ART CURE: How the Arts Can Transform Our Health with DAISY FANCOURT

About this episode

Daisy Fancourt discusses the transformative power of the arts on health and wellbeing.

"Within society, we seem to have separated the arts out, so they're not so much a part of our daily lives. Often there's something that we feel we should do as a kind of leisure activity or hobby if we have enough time or if we have enough money to engage in them. And this is so fundamentally different to how humans engaged with the arts. When we look back thousands of years, it just was part of the everyday, and I feel like that's a major loss within contemporary societies." Daisy Fancourt is a Professor of Psychobiolo gy & Epidemiology at UCL and the author of Art Cure: The Science of How the Arts Transform Our Health. A pioneer in the field of psychoneuroimmunology, she directs the WHO Collaborating Center on Arts and Health, where her research influences global health policy and the integration of the arts into medical care. (0:00) The Healing Power of the Arts: Longevity, Immunity & Wellbeing (1:17) Singing to Daphne: How Daisy used singing to comfort her premature daughter in the ICU (2:47) The Story of Russell: How a stroke survivor used art classes to reclaim his life, health, and identity (5:23) A Planet of 8 Billion Artists: Tracing the evolutionary origins of…

People in this episode

Guest: Daisy Fancourt

Topics covered

• arts and health
• psychoneuroimmunology
• creativity
• wellbeing
• longevity

Keywords

• arts
• health
• psychoneuroimmunology
• creativity
• wellbeing
• longevity
• Daisy Fancourt

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: UCL, WHO Collaborating Center on Arts and Health

Books & works: Art Cure: The Science of How the Arts Transform Our Health

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