Searching for Meaning: meeting cancer patients' desire for spiritual care through the arts

我自己作为癌症患者的经历，以及我随后在肿瘤学护理领域的研究，强调了帮助患者解决癌症生活所提出的精神和存在问题的必要性。借鉴公共卫生科学和神学美学的研究，我的博士论文探讨了艺术可以帮助满足这一需求的方式。我将展示不同种类的艺术（包括“高雅”和“流行”）如何帮助癌症患者在五个核心领域的精神关注，而无需（如艺术治疗）患者自己创作艺术。

My own experience as a cancer patient, and my subsequent research in the field of Oncology Care, has highlighted the need to help patients address the spiritual and existential questions raised by life with cancer. Drawing on research in Public Health Science and Theological Aesthetics, my PhD thesis explores the ways in which the arts can help meet this need. I will demonstrate how different kinds of art (including 'high' and 'popular') can help cancer patients with five central areas of spiritual concern without (as in art therapy) the patients having to produce art themselves.