Music therapy research and practice in medicine : from out of the silence / David Aldridge.

London : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 1996.

326 pages : black and white illustrations, charts ; 25 cm

Copy 1. Donor: Arts for Health.

1. Getting Started -- 2. Health as Performance -- 3. Communication and the Playing of Improvised Music -- 4. Music Therapy Research in the Medical Literature -- 5. Aesthetics and the Individual in the Practice of Research -- 6. Single Case Research Designs for the Creative Music Therapist -- 7. Shared Meanings -- 8. Music Therapy and Inflammatory Bowel Disease -- 9. Music Therapy with the Elderly -- 10. Hope, Meaning and Music Therapy in the Treatment of Life-Threatening Illness -- 11. Creative Music Therapy in the Treatment of Children with Developmental Delay -- 12. The Credible Practitioner in the Community of Inquiry.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 284-313) and index.