ABSTRACT
Just as work in medical-health-humanities grows, there is increasing discussion about the ways in which the field can more fully engage with critical social questions and problems. Recent work emphasises the importance of addressing health experiences and perspectives of marginalised and often unrecognised populations (Wear and Aultman 2005; Green 2011; Garden 2015; Viney et al. 2015; Fioretti et al. 2016; McLaughlin 2017). In addition to identifying the ways in which the arts and humanities give voice to diverse perspectives and provide insights into experiences of social exclusion, scholars and practitioners are interested in expanding the application of medical-health-humanities work in medical and healthcare education and patient engagement. Coming out of this literature is a greater drive towards understanding and addressing the role of structural and social factors in health and healthcare experiences (Banner 2016).
