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M. J. Friedrich

JAMA. 1999;281:1779-1781.

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Manchester, England—Braving the drizzle of a chill English spring, more than 400 delegates from 26 countries gathered at the first World Symposium on Culture, Health, and the Arts held at Manchester Metropolitan University. Participants, who included physicians, researchers, artists, designers, policymakers, planners, and funders, attended presentations and workshops to learn how architecture and design, music, visual arts, theater and performance art, and poetry are being used to aid healing and improve well-being around the world.

In recent years, many innovators have used the arts and design to enhance the healing process in a variety of health care settings, said Peter Senior, the director of Arts for Health, the United Kingdom Advisory Centre for the arts in health care and part of the Faculty of Art and Design at Manchester Metropolitan University. He expressed hope that the knowledge and experiences of health and the arts shared at . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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