BOOKS
Recommended reading
We invite you to search for these texts online or in your local bookstores. If you have suggestions of books to add to our list, please email info@thenoah.net.

Activating the Art Museum: Designing Experiences for the Health Professions by Ruth Slavin, Ray Williams, and Corinne Zimmermann

Art Heals: How Creativity Cures the Soul by Shaun McNiff

Arts in Health: Designing and Researching Interventions by Daisy Fancourt

Oxford Textbook of Creative Arts, Health, and Wellbeing: International perspectives on practice, policy, and research edited by Stephen Clift and Paul M. Camic

Healing And Recovery by David R. Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D.

Transforming the Healthcare Experience Through the Arts by Blair L. Sadler and Annette Ridenour

‘Purpose-built Art in Hospitals’: Art with Intent by Judy Rollins

Artists-In-Residence: The Creative Center’s Approach to Arts in Healthcare by Geraldine Herbert, Jane Waggoner Deschner, and Robin Glazer

The Art & Joy of Hospital Clowning Training Program by Jeannie Lindheim

Bringing the Arts to Life: A Guide to the Arts and Long-Term Care by Judy Rollins

Creativity and the Brain by Kenneth Jr. Heilman
Interactive Music in Pediatrics: A Handbook for Music Practitioners by Wendy Lanxner, M.M.Ed.

Making Change: Teaching Artists and Their Role in Shaping a Better World by Eric Booth

Trusting the Moment: Unlocking Your Creativity and Imagination. A Handbook for individuals and people who work creatively with others by Jeannie Lindheim.

The World in Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature by Daniel J. Levitin

Arts & America: Arts, Culture, and the Future of America’s Communities

Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande

Creative Care: An artist in healthcare by Ariadne Albright

Dementia Beyond Disease: Enhancing Well-Being by G. Allen Power, M.D.

Managing Arts Programs in Healthcare edited by Patricia Dewey Lambert

Waking the Spirit: A Musician’s Journey Healing Body, Mind, and Soul by Andrew Schulman

Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us by Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross
Arts for Health Theatre by Sydney Cheek-O’Donnell

The Creative Arts in Dementia Care by Jill Hayes with Sarah Povey

Creative Care: Projects by Ariadne Albright
Harp: The People’s Press

Music and the Brain by Professor Aniruddh D. Patel

Project UnLonely: Healing Our Crisis of Disconnection by Jeremy Nobel, MD, MPH

What Is Art For? by Ellen Dissanayake

Whole Person Healthcare: Vol. 3, the arts and health edited by Ilene A. Serlin, Ph.D., BC-DMT