{"product_id":"selling-healing-creative-arts-and-health-communication-in-ghana-hardback-9781009244435","title":"Selling Healing; Creative Arts and Health Communication in Ghana (Hardback) 9781009244435","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eSelling Healing\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eCreative Arts and Health Communication in Ghana\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDrawing from Ghana as a case study, this book presents the central role of arts in health communication.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAma de-Graft Aikins (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781009244435, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 20 November 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e220 pages\u003cbr\u003e28 x 19 x 2.1 cm, 0.472 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'Too often, global narratives about Africa are flattened into tales of crisis: war, famine, disease. Selling Healing challenges this, offering instead a textured portrait of Ghanaians' knowledge systems, creativity, and health practices. The result is a book that reclaims the continent's voice and presents Ghana and Africa with nuance, beauty and complexity.' Hibbah Osei-Kwasi, Senior Lecturer Nutrition and Public Health, Loughborough University, UK\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThe intersections between arts, creativity and health are of significant importance in the humanities and social sciences. Arts and health research, for example, suggests that the arts offer participatory and transformational alternatives to traditional health communication. However, concepts and methods are predominantly informed by Global North research, and critical insights from arts traditions elsewhere remain to be fully integrated into common models. Ghana offers a unique case study for examining local and global dynamics in arts-based health communication, because of the country's rich art traditions as well as its place in global history and in the global imagination. Healing art forms like music and sculpture have evolved through intentional cross-cultural borrowings, as well as through changes imposed through slavery, colonialism and post-colonial political systems. Selling Healing tells a polyvocal story of how Ghanaian art forms intersect with health, illness and healing, inviting a re-imagining of health communication in global health.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of figures, tables and boxes\u003cbr\u003e Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e 1. Introduction: 'the gods may be considered patrons of the arts'\u003cbr\u003e 2. If you sell your sickness you get a cure\u003cbr\u003e 3. Mr wise and Mr foolish go to town\u003cbr\u003e 4. All die (no) be die\u003cbr\u003e 5. Food is medicine, food is poison\u003cbr\u003e 6. Out of your mind\u003cbr\u003e 7. We cannot eat stories\u003cbr\u003e 8. Colonial virus\u003cbr\u003e 9. Conclusions: “In Ghana here, you have to be creative to move ahead”\u003cbr\u003e Appendix 1: map of Ghana, showing selected sites of arts-based health interventions\u003cbr\u003e Appendix 2: interviews\u003cbr\u003e Appendix 3: selected art forms: mural, songs, adverts, comedy sketches\u003cbr\u003e References\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Clinical psychology [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Clinical psychology\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Clinical%20psychology%20%5BMMJ%5D%22\"\u003eMMJ\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52501153153304,"sku":"9781009244435","price":75.57,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781009244435i.jpg?v=1786213034","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/selling-healing-creative-arts-and-health-communication-in-ghana-hardback-9781009244435","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}