“In this splendid labor of care, Peters and her collaborators prove this: To radically turn healthcare towards careful and kind care for all, we need to ask, uncover, unleash, make, invite, reveal, conspire, act. We need art.”
— Victor M. Montori, MD, Rewoldt Professor of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, author of Why We Revolt: A Patient Revolution for Careful and Kind Care, and care activist with The Patient Revolution
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“In this gorgeous book, Artists Remaking Medicine, Emily Peters and her team have given us all a gift: a guidebook for building a more humane health care system. Both artists and clinicians use the word ‘practice’ to describe how they pursue their work. This book invites us to join in the work — and the fun — of practicing new ways of thinking.”
— Susannah Fox, health and technology strategist, former CTO of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and author of Rebel Health
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“This utterly original panorama of a book argues that medicine is not — and never has been — separate from the human experience, in all its messy beauty. Peters shows how the myth of the ‘objective’ clinical gaze has left our health care systems impoverished of beauty and connection — and how bringing art of all kinds into health care spaces has the potential to transform how we care for one another. This gorgeous book is a necessary act of reimagination, meeting the urgency of the moment.”
— Sarah DiGregorio, journalist and critically acclaimed author of Early: An Intimate History of Premature Birth and What it Teaches Us About Being Human and Taking Care: The Story of Nursing and Its Power to Change Our World
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“Artists Remaking Medicine is a gorgeous reminder of the healing potential of creativity, embodiment, and sense-making, and a vivid and timely call to action for all of us to connect more deeply with what’s possible. This book is a must-read for anyone needing a refresh on all that is creative and generative in medicine.”
— Rana Awdish, MD, FCCP, pulmonary and critical care physician and bestselling author of In Shock: My Journey from Death to Recovery and the Redemptive Power of Hope
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“Peters collaborated with artists, writers and musicians, including some doctors and public health professionals, to share surprising ideas about how creativity might make health care more humane…The artists’ goal is to inject humanity and creativity into a field mired in apparently intractable systemic problems and plagued by financial toxicity. They turn to puppetry, painting, color theory, and music, seeking to start a much-needed dialogue that could spur deeper change.”
— Mara Gordon, MD, family physician and NPR contributor
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“Art and medicine have been intertwined since the beginning of time. The sooner we understand this, the sooner we can change things for the better. Emily and her collaborators take us on an inspiring journey that anyone hoping to make healthcare more human centered should take.”
— Rob Pugliese, Director of Innovation Design and co-director of the Health Design Lab, Thomas Jefferson University and Jefferson Health
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“We mistakenly often think of medicine as being a STEM subject that uses just one side of the brain. But in fact, many doctors are also gifted artists and have a background in humanities. So much of this discipline is more than a science, it’s an art form. Emily Peters has shown that when we engage both sides of the brain, the results are truly extraordinary.”
— Christina Farr, health-tech principal investor, OMERS Ventures, and author of “Second Opinion.”
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"This book took my literal breath away. At the end of every day, patients are human beings, and Artists Remaking Medicine reminds us of that through the stories so beautifully told in this book. If we want to figure out how to reimagine healthcare, we must have a patient-first view. Thank you, Emily and team, for reminding us of what is truly important and the opportunity to remake medicine.”
— Jenny Bogard, executive director of the National Hypertension Control Roundtable
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“Can artists and artful thinkers help remake medicine and healthcare? A new book asks and answers the question; spoiler alert, it's an empathic, evidence-based ‘yes.’ Artists Remaking Medicine is an empathic, story-rich collaboration with two dozen artists and artfully-thinking folks involved in the health care ecosystem — physicians, technologists, innovators, nurses, patients, architects, designers, musicians. I highly recommend you add this book to your library shelf on health care transformation.”
— Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, author of HealthConsuming: From Health Consumer to Health Citizen and the award-winning Health Populi blog
