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Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Evidence of the Impact of Quilts and Quiltmaking on Health and
Healthcare Outcomes
2. The Art of Health-related Quiltmaking
3. Individual Experiences of Health and Wellbeing through
Quiltmaking
4. Public and Collective Quiltmaking for Health and Wellbeing
5. Quilts in Healing Environments and Clinical Care
6. Conclusion
Afterword
Appendix A: Guide to Whatever It Takes: An Ovarian Cancer Diary
Appendix B: Quilt Makers and Quilt Recipients
Bibliography
Index
Marsha MacDowell is Professor of Art, Art History, and Design at Michigan State University, Curator of Folk Arts at the Michigan State University Museum, and Director of the Quilt Index (www.quiltindex.org). She has authored many publications on traditional material culture and quiltmaking, including Quilts and Human Rights and Ubuntutu.
Clare Luz is Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at Michigan State University. She is a gerontologist whose research focuses on quality of life for vulnerable older adults, long-term care health services, and the intersection of health, creativity, and the arts.
Beth Donaldson is Digital Humanities Project Asset Coordinator at the Michigan State University Museum and Coordinator of the Quilt Index. She is a quilt maker and coauthor of Quilts and Human Rights, among other publications on quilts.
This wide-ranging collection of quilts associated with health is
accompanied by the stories of the makers, and shows that this art
form can be both beautiful and therapeutic to the quilter, the
recipient, and the viewer alike.
*Machine Quilting Unlimited*
This book will be used and enjoyed for years to come by those
seeking further scientific research but also by individuals who
know personally, without a doubt, the act of quilting or receiving
a quilt is therapeutic for healing of body and soul.
*The Quilt Pattern Magazine*
"Quilts and Health explores the myriad connections that are forged
between disease, recovery, and quilt making."
*New Books Network*
Richly informed through extensive interviews and quantitative and
visual analysis, Quilts and Health will appeal to diverse
audiences. One hopes that medical practitioners, who will benefit
the most from this beautiful and instructive book, will encounter
it and read it with care.
*Choice Reviews*
The book will appeal to quilt enthusiasts, health care providers,
as well as folklorists, and will be equally at home in a hospital
waiting area, in a quilt guild's library, or on the desk of those
who study quilts and quilt makers.
*Western Folklore*
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