Creativity and illness
A pioneering work in the field of Medical Humanities, first published as Creativity and disease in 1982, Creativity and illness now appears in a fresh, extended version based on the definitive Swedish edition published in 2022. A renowned surgeon, Philip Sandblom was also a connoisseur of the fine a...
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Manchester University Press
2026
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| description | A pioneering work in the field of Medical Humanities, first published as Creativity and disease in 1982, Creativity and illness now appears in a fresh, extended version based on the definitive Swedish edition published in 2022. A renowned surgeon, Philip Sandblom was also a connoisseur of the fine arts, and throughout his life he was fascinated by the interplay between art and health. Having started out as a student of the impact of illness and disability on the works of pictorial artists, he gradually integrated music and literature with his analyses. Some 150 artists, composers, and authors crowd the pages of this book. Most of these creative spirits are famous names, including Keats, Hölderlin, Woolf, Mahler, Mozart, Goya, Kahlo, and Klee; but Sandblom brings out aspects of their works that only a medical expert would discern. In lively style, this book demonstrates the effects of ill health on the artistic impulse, surprising the reader by pointing out that illness is not invariably detrimental to creativity. Abundantly illustrated, it combines portrayals of human suffering with celebrations of the human spirit manifested in consummate artistry. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1721232026-02-18T05:25:15Z Creativity and illness Sandblom, Philip Medical Humanities Ill health and disability Art history Creativity Composers and disease Art as therapy Death in art Artistic impulse Illness and literature Experience Ill health Artistic expression Gustav Mahler Frida Kahlo Music as emotional expression Johann Sebastian Bach Pain Job Blaise Pascal Arthur Schopenhauer Henri Matisse Sam Francis Manic-depressive illness Restoration of health Inspiration Ludwig van Beethoven Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd Alcoholism Drug addiction Thomas De Quincey Samuel Taylor Coleridge Giovanni Battista Piranesi Jean Cocteau Charles Baudelaire Aldous Huxley Mescaline John Donne Marcel Proust Piet Mondrian Tourette’s syndrome Samuel Johnson W. A. Mozart Mental illness Schizophrenia Epilepsy Dementia Friedrich Hölderlin Charles Meryon Robert Schumann Iris Murdoch Congenital disabilities Compensation for disability Lord Byron Henri Toulouse-Lautrec Nicolò Paganini Michel de Montaigne Claude Monet Paul Cézanne Pierre de Ronsard Pierre-Auguste Renoir Raoul Dufy Pablo Picasso Old age Waning powers Visual impairment John Milton Loss of hearing Jonathan Swift Ménière’s disease Francisco de Goya Paget’s disease Stoicism Gallstones Immanuel Kant Walter Scott Esaias Tegnér Hostility to medicine Surgery for bladder stones Depression Molière Samuel Pepys Marin Marais George Bernard Shaw Virginia Woolf Tuberculosis Consumption John Keats The Brontës Anton Chekhov Katherine Mansfield D. H. Lawrence Aubrey Beardsley Antoni Tàpies Antoine Watteau Hjalmar Gullberg Rainer Maria Rilke Béla Bartók Flannery O’Connor Ivar Arosenius Paul Klee Juan Gris Illness Sociology thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCC Cultural studies thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBS Medical sociology thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MQ Nursing and ancillary services::MQT Occupational therapy::MQTC Creative therapy / Expressive therapies thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AG The Arts: treatments and subjects::AGA History of art thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social and cultural anthropology thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JM Psychology::JMR Cognition and cognitive psychology thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AG The Arts: treatments and subjects::AGB Individual artists, art monographs A pioneering work in the field of Medical Humanities, first published as Creativity and disease in 1982, Creativity and illness now appears in a fresh, extended version based on the definitive Swedish edition published in 2022. A renowned surgeon, Philip Sandblom was also a connoisseur of the fine arts, and throughout his life he was fascinated by the interplay between art and health. Having started out as a student of the impact of illness and disability on the works of pictorial artists, he gradually integrated music and literature with his analyses. Some 150 artists, composers, and authors crowd the pages of this book. Most of these creative spirits are famous names, including Keats, Hölderlin, Woolf, Mahler, Mozart, Goya, Kahlo, and Klee; but Sandblom brings out aspects of their works that only a medical expert would discern. In lively style, this book demonstrates the effects of ill health on the artistic impulse, surprising the reader by pointing out that illness is not invariably detrimental to creativity. Abundantly illustrated, it combines portrayals of human suffering with celebrations of the human spirit manifested in consummate artistry. 2026-02-18T05:25:14Z 2026-02-18T05:25:14Z 2026-02-17T12:36:42Z 2025 book https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/109994 9789198740516 9789198740523 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/172123 eng open access image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/109994/1/9789198740516.pdf Manchester University Press 10.7765/9789198740516 10.7765/9789198740516 bcb4ab08-c525-4e6c-88e5-a0cf0a175533 9789198740516 9789198740523 243 Lund open access |
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| topic | Medical Humanities Ill health and disability Art history Creativity Composers and disease Art as therapy Death in art Artistic impulse Illness and literature Experience Ill health Artistic expression Gustav Mahler Frida Kahlo Music as emotional expression Johann Sebastian Bach Pain Job Blaise Pascal Arthur Schopenhauer Henri Matisse Sam Francis Manic-depressive illness Restoration of health Inspiration Ludwig van Beethoven Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd Alcoholism Drug addiction Thomas De Quincey Samuel Taylor Coleridge Giovanni Battista Piranesi Jean Cocteau Charles Baudelaire Aldous Huxley Mescaline John Donne Marcel Proust Piet Mondrian Tourette’s syndrome Samuel Johnson W. A. Mozart Mental illness Schizophrenia Epilepsy Dementia Friedrich Hölderlin Charles Meryon Robert Schumann Iris Murdoch Congenital disabilities Compensation for disability Lord Byron Henri Toulouse-Lautrec Nicolò Paganini Michel de Montaigne Claude Monet Paul Cézanne Pierre de Ronsard Pierre-Auguste Renoir Raoul Dufy Pablo Picasso Old age Waning powers Visual impairment John Milton Loss of hearing Jonathan Swift Ménière’s disease Francisco de Goya Paget’s disease Stoicism Gallstones Immanuel Kant Walter Scott Esaias Tegnér Hostility to medicine Surgery for bladder stones Depression Molière Samuel Pepys Marin Marais George Bernard Shaw Virginia Woolf Tuberculosis Consumption John Keats The Brontës Anton Chekhov Katherine Mansfield D. H. Lawrence Aubrey Beardsley Antoni Tàpies Antoine Watteau Hjalmar Gullberg Rainer Maria Rilke Béla Bartók Flannery O’Connor Ivar Arosenius Paul Klee Juan Gris Illness Sociology thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCC Cultural studies thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBS Medical sociology thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MQ Nursing and ancillary services::MQT Occupational therapy::MQTC Creative therapy / Expressive therapies thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AG The Arts: treatments and subjects::AGA History of art thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social and cultural anthropology thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JM Psychology::JMR Cognition and cognitive psychology thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AG The Arts: treatments and subjects::AGB Individual artists, art monographs |
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