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
Megan Hildebrandt
The University of Texas at Austin
Rebecca Muñoz
Chemotherapy Cold Cappers
Robin Richardson
Livestrong Cancer Institutes, Dell Medical School, The University of Texas at Austin