title: Mutual humanization: a visual exploration of relationships in medical care.
abstract: In this article, I explore the work of the artist Robert Pope (b.1957- d.1992) who published a series of paintings and drawings which documented his decade-long experience with Hodgkin's lymphoma. More widely, Pope was interested in 'the culture' of cancer within hospitals and the relationships embedded in experiences of illness and care. Pope published a book that contains much of this work--Illness and Healing: Images of Cancer (1991). Many of the original artworks have been toured throughout Canada and the United Kingdom at cancer centres and medical schools. Using a visual methodology, I present three of Pope's images to examine and understand the experiences of patients within acute care settings. I conclude that Pope's work can be efficacious in exploring relationships in acute care settings.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Health and Behavioural Science, Lakehead University, Orillia, ON, Canada. cphillips@lakeheadu.ca
authors.forename: Catherine
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Phillips
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008512:Medicine in the Arts; D009369:Neoplasms; D010361:Patients / Q000523:psychology*; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations