Cancer Storytelling & Enhancing Empathy in Artists

Aesthetics of Health, where undergraduate students make visual art with/for those impacted by cancer, results in measured increases in student empathy; high-quality student works based on reexamination of art, healing, sickness & the body; & cancer patients voicing their own stories. This interactive pedagogic approach shows promise to also: (1) enhance equity, increase resiliency & maybe even address burnout; & (2) accommodate varying art modalities, community members & settings.

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Richard Greene

The University of Texas at Austin

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Megan Hildebrandt

The University of Texas at Austin

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Rebecca Muñoz

Chemotherapy Cold Cappers

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Robin Richardson

Livestrong Cancer Institutes, Dell Medical School, The University of Texas at Austin