Reflection through the arts: focus on photography to foster reflection in a health care context. Living Beyond - an interactive photographic exhibit

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This paper considers reflection and the arts in relation to health care, focusing on the use of photography to foster reflection in health care contexts. We describe an interactive photographic exhibit aimed at fostering individual and collective reflection and community dialogue for health care professionals, patients and patients’ families at the National Cancer Institute, Mexico City, Mexico, November 2008. The paper highlights reflections of one of the authors, Joel Walker, a psychiatrist and professional photographer, on the experience of using photography to foster reflection in practice. Four photographs in the exhibit are described and patient, practitioner and photographer reflections are presented as exemplars.View full textDownload full textKeywordsreflection and the arts, photography, self‐reflection, health care, reflective practiceRelated var addthis_config = { ui_cobrand: "Taylor & Francis Online", services_compact: "citeulike,netvibes,twitter,technorati,delicious,linkedin,facebook,stumbleupon,digg,google,more", pubid: "ra-4dff56cd6bb1830b" }; Add to shortlist Link Permalink http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14623943.2010.505720