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Can arts be used as pain relief?
Daisy Fancourt is the author of Art Cure, a book which really lives up to its subtitle, “The Science of How the Arts Transform Our Health”. We are reading it this month for New Scientist Book Club.
We spoke to her about how everything from music to magic tricks can improve our health, as well as how a meeting with Brian Eno helped improve treatment for surgical patients, why governments shouldn’t be cutting back on arts funding, and how we can all make some simple changes to inject more of the arts into our own lives, with great health effects.
Watch the full interview: newscientist.com/video/2519746-professor-daisy-fancourt-on-the-life-changing-power-of-the-arts
Can arts be used as pain relief?
Daisy Fancourt is the author of Art Cure, a book which really lives up to its subtitle, “The Science of How the Arts Transform Our Health”. We are reading it this month for New Scientist Book Club.
We spoke to her about how everything from music to magic tricks can improve our health, as well as how a meeting with Brian Eno helped improve treatment for surgical patients, why governments shouldn’t be cutting back on arts funding, and how we can all make some simple changes to inject more of the arts into our own lives, with great health effects.
Watch the full interview: newscientist.com/video/2519746-professor-daisy-fancourt-on-the-life-changing-power-of-the-arts
