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Part One Background and context: the arts in health movement, Peter Senior; art in hospital project, Mary Hooper; the best music in the world - the work of the Council for Music in Hospitals, Sylvia Lindsay; paintings in hospitals, Raphael Eban. Part Two Working with existing buildings: purchasing and commissioning visual art in hospitals, Nigel Weaver; recipe for conversion - working in the psychiatric environment, Peter J. Salmon and Graham A. Moore; projects for specific needs, Gail Bolland. Part Three New buildings: St Mary's Hospital - an alliance of art and interior design, Stephen Nicoll; St Mary's Hospital, Isle of Wight - arts project, Richard Burton; spaces between buildings in the health-care estate, John Lynch. Part Four The community: Isle of Wight - arts for the hospital and the community, Guy Eades; independent arts, Meryel Boyd; celebratory arts - the arts in primary health care, Tony Blee. Part Five Experience from abroad: creative arts opportunities for hospitals - the UCLA experiment, Devra M. Breslow; building arts in medicine, John Graham- Pole, et al; taking shape - environmental art in health care, Janice B. Palmer and Florence Nash. Part Six Artists in residence: some questions of identity - what is writing in health care?, Fiona Sampson; a painter's perspective, Chris Barrett; writing in hospices, Lynne Alexander. Part Seven The quality of care: reminiscence work with older people in health-care settings - the age-exchange reminiscence project, Bernie Arigho; the Bolingbroke long-term care project, Peter Millard; the arts in a secure environment, Ruth Preece et al. Part Eight Start: the arts and mental health - a personal view, Langley Brown; culinary arts in health, John Rice. Part Nine Evaluation and future persectives: does art heal? An evaluative approach to art in the health service, Malcolm Miles; evaluating the arts in primary care - the effectiveness of the arts in health care, Robin Phillip; the Poole approach to planetree, Ruth Cusson; the tree of learning - a culture for patient-centred care, Malcolm Miles.